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...norm," Associate Justice Otto Kaus declared that even today's "family magazines, which no one would think of hiding from the children, have for years played peekaboo with the female breast." In such a society, reasoned Kaus, the court cannot rationally rule "that a woman who exposes her bust for a brief period, without suggestive movements, before a limited group of adults of both sexes, outrages public decency by any and all definitions of that term...
...Nazis had hidden their art loot, proudly boasted that he was the first Allied offi cer to enter the Louvre upon the liberation of Paris. As director of the Met, he relished prowling galleries for finds, made auction history when he bought Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer for a record $2,300,000 with a wink. Last March he went to London to watch the bidding for St. George and the Dragon, was only momentarily crestfallen when it went to the National Gallery; his real game in Europe was a much bigger, and still unconsummated purchase...
Occasionally his sense of showmanship swept him overboard. Asked recently if the bust of a woman purported to be after Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra di Benci, which the Met bought at a Parke-Bernet auction for $225, was really a Leonardo, Rorimer winced, said, "If you never see it exhibited in the Met, you will know...
...Bust of an Old Man by Durer's predecessor, Martin Schongauer, is a pronounced example of the human quality which we associate with Gothic naturalism Schongauer's work provided Durer with an example of naturalism which united the Flemish realistic tradition with the grace and inventiveness of Gothic drawing. Durer's early work, influenced by this example, abounds in ideas, emotional expression, and vivid Gothic naturalism...
...Fanny-or Bust. The David Merrick who arrived in New York in 1939 looked like the last man in the world who would ever conquer Broadway. Shy and alarmingly thin, he had a bleeding ulcer and shed "a faint greenish glow." But he was shrewd, and he decided to case the joint before he tried to take it over. One day he called on Producer-Director Herman Shumlin and invested $5,000 in The Male Animal. Merrick made $18,000 on the deal, and by watching rehearsals and eavesdropping on conferences he also accumulated valuable experience. Six years later, after...