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Both were by Parisian sculptors already represented in the museum collection. Constantin Brancusi's Bird in Space had long been a polished bronze bone of contention for museumgoers. To some it looked like a crackpot design for a propeller blade; others swore they got the same upward lift from it as from Shelley's To a Skylark. The museum's new Brancusi was a six-foot slab of blue-grey marble, precariously balanced on its side and entitled Fish. It had neither head nor tail, and no one could be sure in which direction the fish...
...Rumania. Bucharest police recently rounded up several hundred Rumanian politicians and generals, most of them aging and long retired. Among them: George Tatarescu, 58, who was Premier under King Carol's regime, then turned his coat to serve the Communists as Foreign Minister until November 1947; and Octogenarian Constantin (Dinu) Bratianu, for years the leader of Rumania's National Liberal Party...
After Premier Themistocles Sophoulis' death (TIME, July 4), King Paul asked Foreign Minister Constantin ("Dino") Tsaldaris, a Populist (right-winger), to form a new cabinet. In his eagerness, Dino promised portfolios to 27 of his friends. At the last minute, he found there were only 25 ministerial posts to fill. With great presence of mind, Tsaldaris simply created two new cabinet posts-Tourism and Physical Culture...
...dish." Sophoulis, as he was dressing, said to his housekeeper: "When I was ill the Queen came to see me and brought me flowers. She is so sweet." A few minutes later, death, as it must to all men, came to Themistocles Sophoulis. King Paul asked Right-Winger Constantin Tsaldaris, now Foreign Minister, to succeed the man who had lived & died in the center...
...recent weeks, Communist big shots have toppled into jail like so many drunks on Saturday night; Ana has had to transform two theaters into prisons. Among those arrested: beautiful Florica Bagdasar, Minister of Public Health; General Michael Lascar of Pauker's own Tudor Vladimirescu division; General Constantin Ionescu, chief of the General Staff; Constantin Doncea, deputy mayor of Bucharest, colonel in the Red army, member of the Communist Central Committee, and Pauker's old comrade. Said she: "Doncea fell into petty bourgeois habits ... I advise all Communists not to sleep on their glory, and take heed from this...