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...modern art. A frustrated artist himself (after 106 canvases, he gave up painting in his 20s "to escape further self-deception"), he thought he saw glimmers of greatness in the ridiculed works of the French postimpressionists. In 1912 he sent Artist William Glackens, an old high-school chum and baseball teammate, to Paris to buy up the best examples he could find. The $20,000-worth that Glackens brought back made the beginning of the finest private collection of French moderns in the world...
...watched G.I.s start this thing, with their ready response to 'Gum, chum?' shouts by English kids, their handout cigarettes in France, even their swapped watches when they met their allies, at that time the Russians. EGA, in similar spirit and greater substance, continued the job. This governmental first aid is about over and a bigger rehabilitation job is getting under way. American goods, methods, ideas have gone out only in samples...
Fred liked to play poker ("He played them close to his chest," says a boyhood chum), drink beer and drive a car at breakneck speed. After graduation, when his father took a fling at making autos, Fred helped him turn out a few of his four-and six-cylinder Republics before they gave it up. But it taught Fred about engines, and when, at 30, he was commissioned a ist lieutenant in World War I, the Army made him an aircraft-engine inspector. He was sent to New Brunswick, N.J., where Wright-Martin was making the famed Hispano-Suiza engine...
...evening with Harry Truman. (Auriol plays the violin.) On his only previous visit to Washington, as a member of the 1925 Franco-American War Debts Commission, Auriol shocked his superiors by running up and embracing the doorman at the French embassy, who turned out to be an old school chum. "If you please, Vincent, behave yourself," reproved the commission's president, stiff-backed Joseph Caillaux. "Hey, President," laughed Auriol, "what would you do if you met an old pal from Mamers...
Friends & Relatives. The conspirators, said the Government, built their belt with friends, college chums and relatives. First the jury heard the college chum. Max Elitcher, a C.C.N.Y. classmate of both Sobell's and Rosenberg's, told how Sobell had recruited him into the Communist party in 1939, when both were working in the Navy's Ordnance Bureau, how Rosenberg and Sobell on various occasions had tried to get him to steal information on projects he worked on. But he insisted he had never actually delivered any information to them himself...