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...even bother to do that. Sure enough, when he came down next morning, the walls of his dining room were bare. "We've been robbed!" he screamed, as his wife and mother burst into tears. Gone were three Braques, three Légers, a Picasso, Modigliani, Buffet, Dufy, Miró, Matisse, Bonnard, Utrillo, Valadon, Laurencin, Derain, Bazaine, Pascin and a Rouault...
Though the stolen paintings are valued at close to half a million dollars, Francis Roux still has his consolations: 4,000 other canvases that his father had only briefly hung. And his father's old friends are being more than sympathetic. Upon reading of the robbery, Bernard Buffet promptly sent Roux a painting of a ram's head to replace the Golden Dove's stolen fish...
Last year TIME ran 162 four-color editorial pages. An additional 52 four-color pages were devoted to TIME'S covers, which were painted by such noted artists as Pietro Annigoni, Boris Artzybasheff, Aaron Bohrod, Bernard Buffet, Boris Chaliapin, James Chapin, Peter Hurd, John Koch, Henry Koerner, Bernard Safran, Ben Shahn, Rufino Tamayo, Robert Vickrey and Andrew Wyeth...
Mosaic Carpets. To contrast with nature's grandeur, the Owingses tried to make the interior snug and warm. The only floor coverings are the pebble floor-mosaics designed by Mrs. Owings, but art abounds in the house-paintings by Morris Graves, drawings by Buffet, a candelabra by Seymour Lipton. When someone remarked that the house, with its redwood sheathing and massive chimney, was reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright, Nat Owings, a longtime aluminum-and-glass specialist, was taken aback, finally admitted: "Wright was a master of the organic philosophy of design. Perhaps anyone who reaches toward nature, or wants...
...Alsatian engineer, drilling for water, brought in the country's first paying oil well. What Frondizi saw, touring by open car, was a brash and bustling boom town (pop. 23,000) where the sprawling trailer camps are guyed by wire against the 75m.p.h. gales, where tricky tides buffet the three to four ships putting in daily at the busy port, where U.S., British, Dutch and Italian oilmen elbow up in nightclubs to watch chorus lines as sprightly as the best in Buenos Aires...