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WITH this week's portrait of Columnist Sylvia Porter, Vienna-born Artist Henry Koerner, 45, chalks up cover portrait No. 15-a gallery of paintings that have caused some TIME readers to applaud us for printing great art, others to hoot in dismay. One woman was so appalled by the appearance of New York Times Washington Correspondent James Reston (Feb. 15) that she wrote in asking about the state of his health: "The boiled right eye with its drooping lid, the bulbous nose-everything he eats or drinks must disagree with...
...military settlements overseas, the news about dependents touched off flurries of dismay-even though the reduction is to be carried out gently and gradually, not by separating families already overseas, but by sending fewer dependents abroad in the future. Many a serviceman grumbled that he would not re-enlist if he could not have his wife and children with him overseas, and Army Secretary Wilber Brucker, playing his favorite role of Big Brother to Army dissidents, made things worse by warning of plunging morale. At a U.S. military colony near Paris, an Army officer's wife looked up from...
...before France's National Assembly, asked for a 1961 pension budget of $106,800. To determine who in France is really an author, Malraux applied the social security definition that a writer is one drawing at least 51% of his income from author's rights. To his dismay, Malraux found French letters in a sad state. Only 150 writers in all France qualified under the definition-and about 80% of these were either mystery-plotting hacks or vulgarizers of other works. Moaned he: "Who will deny that in this domain, statistics lead to the absurd? The problem...
...early returns on Crosby's pronouncement were something less than a vote of confidence. About half the 82 newspapers that carry his TV comments are expected to drop his new column. The reaction did not dismay Crosby, who expects that when the public has learned to appreciate his moral marksmanship, "twice as many papers will carry my column as we have...
Three hours later, after many and a few songs, Pete Seeger the situation; the symbolism, those who cared, was reversed. dismay at a society where controlled machines descrate even Star Spangled Banner he request that the audience stand and, without companiment, sing the anthem's verse. "Think particularly," he "of the last lines: 'O say does that Spangled Banner still wave o'er land of the free and the home of brave." For a few minutes this dressed man, his seasick-green and red socks eminently his left hand moving up and down to control the collective voice...