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Banker Dreyfus not only collected the works of great artists, he tried whenever possible to have those works the portraits of great Renaissance characters. There is Philip the Handsome of Spain; Princess Beatrice of Aragon; the Princess Medea, daughter of that great swashbuckler and Bergamese Bravo, Bartolommeo Colleoni; Giovanni Bentivoglio, tyrant of Bologna, and the dashing Guiliano dei Medici, murdered in church by the Pazzi...
...Paris field Le Bourget last week, descended almost vertically, fluttered gently, birdlike, to the cement take-off before the hangars, came to a dead stop within a few yards, just as a Paris-London passenger plane thundered down a 500-yard take-off for an unpremeditated, complimentary contrast. "Bravo! bravo!" shouted the crowd, which closed in upon this curiosity. Thirty-year-old, blond, Spanish inventor Juan de la Cierva explained that though he had experimented with airplanes since he was 15, it was the first time he had ever made a long cross country flight in any type of plane...
...Bravo: and skulls are good for ash trays...
...spring, the music world behaves irregularly. Grand operas and orchestras pack up and travel. Divas obey their pocketbooks or their temperaments. Experimenters trump their partners' aces. Hinterland critics cry bravo. Last week's news...
...aesthete slips unbeknownst into the orchestra) are those who have come really to appreciate and to enjoy the sonorous grandeurs of the opera. For them the occasion is more than a display of what adorns the better vertebrae. And, contrary to fiction, an ability to eat spaghetti and bellow bravo is not a requisite for inclusion in the intelligentsia...