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Died. Maurice Utrillo, 71, famed French painter of Paris street scenes and landscapes; of pneumonia; in Dax, France. Born in Montmartre, Utrillo was the bastard son of talented, scatterbrained Suzanne Valadon, who had worked as a circus acrobat, a model for Toulouse-Lautrec and Renoir, and was later a top painter herself. An heir to the worst ills of bohemianism (legend has it that he was fathered by Renoir, Degas, or an alcoholic paint dauber named Boissy), Utrillo drank absinthe in his teens, was an alcoholic at 18, began painting in 1902 at the behest of his mother to keep...
...seen I should almost die of monotony"). So last week they offered him a "safe conduct" if he would meet them on a street-corner to debate his charges. Dodds went, encountered storms of abuse but not much logic. "You really ought to be in a circus and not a Labor M.P.," shouted one. "What was I doing?" demanded another. "You kept the flies off the tea," said Dodds imperturbably. Dodds refused their pleas to apologize. "You cannot talk me out of what I saw. I saw it. It was a sickening sight...
...stabilizing factor. In the G.O.P. Dwight Eisenhower could-if he would-be an important force in selecting the nominee. Among Democrats, Harry Truman can-and he will-exert considerable influence. No matter what either man does, the prospect for the U.S. is a yearlong, two-ring political circus that may well be the greatest show of its kind in U.S. history...
...industry this year passionately hopes to make such a verdict impossible. Millions of dollars-and thousands of individual careers-are at stake as the net works, film makers, admen and sponsors gamble seven nights a week to keep Americans glued to their 32 million TV sets. Like circus barkers pulling in a crowd, TV spokesmen shout about the wonders to come. They promise the finest opera, the best ballet, the most gripping drama, the newest movies, the funniest comedians and dozens on dozens of full-color, star-studded Spectaculars-a monster extravaganza planned to make U.S. living rooms jump with...
...Paul Dudley White, 69, is one of the world's most eminent heart specialists. In the pursuit of his notable career he has taken electrocardiograms of circus elephants, and once, in the icy waters off the coast of Alaska, he even recorded the heartbeat of a beluga whale by means of an electrocardiograph wired to a pair of brass-tipped harpoons (TIME, Aug. 25, 1952). Since the whale was small as well as in an understandable state of excitement, Dr. White was not fully satisfied with the result. He still yearns to record the throb of a heart...