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ISRAEL (pop. 1,400,000): independent republic since May 1948. Head of state: President CHAIM WEIZMAN, 77. Prime Minister: Socialist DAVID BEN-GURION, 65. Universally hated by Arab, states. Army: 70,000 men, well-trained...
...goateed scholar with almost half a century in the rabbinate behind him, walked into the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria. Fifteen hundred guests had gathered for the first in a series of testimonial dinners celebrating his 70th birthday (June n). He heard congratulatory messages from Jewish leaders, including Chaim Weizmann, Herbert Lehman and President Louis Finkelstein of Jewish Theological Seminary. They and most American Jews know Dr. Kaplan for his longtime leadership of the Reconstructionist movement-a broad effort to heal the theological divisions in U.S. Judaism...
...refused when the bloc asked for the newly created ministry of Trade & Economy. For a while the religionist spouse left its government home, then returned when aged President Chaim Weizmann patched things up. Ben-Gurion got a non-partisan minister of Trade & Economy, but had to promise that the government would buy nothing but Kosher meat...
...past half-century, School-of-Paris art has been an international product. Among those who contributed most to it were six expatriate Jews: Amedeo Modigliani, Jules Pascin, Ossip Zadkine, Jacques Lipchitz, Marc Chagall and Chaim Soutine. Philadelphia Art Collector Albert C. Barnes once bought 50-odd Soutines at a swoop, called him "a far more important artist than Van Gogh...
...every drink that Chaim Soutine refused, Jules Pascin downed twelve. Ulcers did not bother him, though his overworked liver did. In 1930, when he was 45, it became clear that his liver would soon give out altogether. Pascin slashed his wrists, wrote "Lucy, pardonnez-moi" in blood on the wall, and, for good measure, hanged himself. The girl friend of the message, Lucy Krogh, subsequently opened an art gallery. Last week she staged a retrospective show of Pascin's paintings and drawings...