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Died. Emil Nolde (real name: Emil Hansen), 88, pioneer German expressionist painter, who, with others of a group called Die Brücke (the Bridge), brought a vivid emotional style into German painting; in Seebüll, Germany. A major influence on German art, Nolde painted vigorous, glowing canvases, was a member of the Nazi Party, sold his "decadent" painting to Art Lover Hermann Göring while Hitler looked the other...
Isetta's slogan, which has helped push production to 100 a day: "Less taxes per year (39 marks) than a city dachshund (60 marks)." Still stranger cars are ready to go on sale. One is the egg-shaped Brütsch, named after Stuttgart Designer Egon Brütsch, which stands barely 3 ft. high, has four forward speeds but no reverse, does 67 miles per gallon. Strangest of all is the Dornier Delta, which looks like an old-fashioned electric toaster on wheels; the front and back sections hinge at the top to form doors. The front seats...
Grounded for a month: Aviatrix Jacqueline Auriol, 37, daughter-in-law of France's ex-President Auriol and recent setter of the women's unofficial speed record (TIME, June 13). The grounds for her grounding were tersely set forth by a nettled official of Brétigny Air Center, where Jacqueline, a madcap in a cockpit, seared her new mark (708 m.p.h.): "You have flown too low, too fast. You have taken too many risks. You will be punished and suspended...
There was opera, too. Vienna had its operatic golden age (1897-1907) under Composer-Conductor Gustav Mahler, a perfectionist who, so legend has it, personally walked Brünnhilde's horse around the Ringstrasse before the performance of Götterdämmerung in order to prevent stage accidents. Vienna was never especially fond of innovations, but some became famous. When Soprano Maria Jeritza was rehearsing Tosca with a Scarpia who knew not his own strength, she landed flat on her face on the floor just before her big aria, Vissi d'arte. She sang it from there...
...Br-r-r-ing! Next day, the President took off on a whirlwind speaking trip to Cleveland, Detroit, Louisville and Wilmington. By leaving Washington at 7:25 a.m. and returning at 7:14 p.m., the President traveled some 1,500 miles and averaged an incredible 125 m.p.h., including stops. Everywhere he went, his theme was Peace and Prosperity: "We won't go to war in order to get work." At his last stop, in Delaware, Ike had a suggestion to make: "If everybody here in this audience would go home this evening and start calling up-would call...