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MANY an artist has proclaimed his right to take a stand in politics, but few politicians have attempted to speak from canvas. Last week, in muffled tones, the art fraternity across the U.S. was hotly debating whether one of the greatest politicians of the age had a right to exhibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 10, 1958 | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

With gusto, he accumulated bishoprics (and illegitimate children). His taste for high life and ceremony was not merely personal; pomp and circumstance were a matter of public relations, an art in which Wolsey was a master. A high point of his career came when he stage-managed the futile but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Study in Scarlet | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

Akins, who slipped to the canvas in the fourth when hurt by a left hook, sent Tony down with a right uppercut and two violent lefts in the eighth. DeMarco fell against the ropes and pitched forward on his stomach. He was up at the count of seven and gamely...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Akins Fells DeMarco with TKO | 1/22/1958 | See Source »

Seurat went about his mission with a thoroughness that Louvre Curator Germain Bazin compares only to Leonardo da Vinci's own scientific preparations. To ready his first painted manifesto, La Grande Jatte, Seurat went daily for six months to the island to sketch and make quick color studies, worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: THE SCIENCE OF SEURAT | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

Bride and Groom: The invitation was marked FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE and read: "One of the biggest show-business weddings of this era will take place when Shirl Conway, the musical comedy and TV star, and Composer Bernie [Vanessa] Wayne, will be married over the NBC network from 2:30 to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

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