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...never heard her husband talk of fleeing to the West. "Had I known, I would have killed him because such a thought is treason against our country," said Maria. "Now I only want to go back to Rumania as fast as possible, [because] I might be kidnaped by the Danish police like my husband." A few days later she was flown back to Bucharest...
Died. Emile Gauguin, 81, retired construction engineer, elder son of Painter Paul Gauguin and Mette Gad, the Danish wife whom Gauguin deserted to follow a painting career; of bronchial pneumonia; in Englewood. Fla. Although he owned only one of his father's works, a pencil sketch of his mother, Emile Gauguin staunchly defended his father's reputation, in 1941 threatened to sue United Artists if they used any Gauguin art in the movie version of Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence, claiming that it would identify the disreputable hero with his father (see BOOKS...
Gauguin used to wail, in later years-much as a lifer's wife might wail: "I had no idea he was going to Sing Sing!" Mette Gad was a Danish civil servant's daughter, a handsome, white-skinned Juno (Gauguin favored husky women) who met her fate on a jaunt to Paris in 1873. Paul Gauguin was a strapping fellow with a bull neck, a great beak of a nose, and hooded, blue-green eyes. His stockbroker's black business suit sat strangely on him because he looked like a pirate chief and walked with the rolling...
...Government must provide incentives for capital by such changes as a reduction in the corporate tax rate on foreign earnings. In calling for tariff reductions, Randall points out how high tariffs can transfer burdens from one part of the economy to another. When the U.S. banned imports of Danish bleu cheese, for example, the Danes banned U.S. coal (see below), thus transferred Wisconsin's problem to West Virginia...
...restrictions on dairy products from Denmark and other countries. "We feel,"said Denmark's Gunnar Seidenfaden, "that a leading trading nation like the U.S. has special responsibilities to cooperate in the general effort." With the backing of Australia, The Netherlands, Sweden, Italy and Canada, GATT passed a Danish resolution affirming the right of other nations to take retaliatory action against the U.S. so long as American import restrictions remain in effect...