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Lithuania-born, Brooklyn-bred, the young immigrant was raised in a Williamsburg slum. Later Shahn attended art schools in the U.S. and Europe, and over the years evolved his own distinctive style, winning fame as a painter of biting social comment, somewhere between caricature and fantasy. His work has taken many forms. During World War II, he drew posters for the U.S. Office of War Information. He has also done murals and stage sets. In 1956-57, exercising a kind of poetic license, he lectured on art as Charles Eliot Norton professor of poetry at Harvard. Many of Ben Shahn...
Older than the Rothschilds, more versatile than the Barings or the Hambros, Europe's Warburg-family banking dynasty has prospered ever since it started changing money in 1559. Along with bankrolling potentates and private tycoons, the Warburg family has bred many of its own philanthropists, scientists and scholars. In 20th century Germany, members of the family or their partners were friends to Kaiser Wilhelm, represented their country at Versailles (and refused to sign the treaty), sat on 100 corporate boards. After Hitler came in, the Warburgs-being Jews -were forced out. Now, however, the resilient Warburgs are returning with...
...makes Technicolor seem a necessity. But the 4-H sex appeal of this genial western centers principally upon a white-faced bull named Vindicator. A hornless Hereford, he arrives in America well before the turn of the century, chaperoned by Maureen and plucky Juliet Mills as a well-bred English mother and daughter with some eccentric ideas about animal husbandry. Their hefty British bull is just the thing, they swear, to beef up the herds of lean longhorn cattle then prevalent in the West...
...tree shrew, can be mass bred in captivity, it will be as inexpensive as the rat as a laboratory animal. And it is much nearer to human beings on the evolutionary scale...
...setting come volunteers from ACCION (Americans for Community Action in Other Countries), a sort of private Peace Corps. Their primary job is to develop a community spirit in the barrios (slums) and to stimulate the habit of self-help. What complicates their task is the numbing sense of futility bred by the sprawling poverty. In Caracas, for instance, innumerable tin and cardboard huts perch uncertainly on the scenic hillsides. They are put up overnight and house hundreds of thousands of peasants who flood the city seeking work and a better life. They find neither. Few make more than two hundred...