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Last week, clad in a tasteful Dior black wool suit with blue stole, Mannequin Lucky led a protesting detachment of 150 models into Paris' famed Palais de Justice. "This tribunal," said Presiding Magistrate Marcian Dumont, when evidence was all in, "approves of your fine work and says 'bravo.' " Nevertheless, Lucky had broken the law and must pay "a penalty of principle." Somberly the judge pronounced sentence: a fine of 60?. Borne from the courtroom in triumph on the shoulders of heftier companions, Lucky promised to win from the government formal permission to continue her Association Mutuelle...
Later all hell broke loose in the area between Santos Dumont Airport and the Air Ministry. (Our office building stands in majestic isolation between the two.) José and Paulo were in the office when machine guns began rattling and bullets started thudding into the walls. Paulo and José rushed out the back door of the building, stumbled over the body of a boy who had just been killed. They saw a police patrol headed for the building and quietly slipped away. It was no time to get mixed up with the police. Minutes later the building was sealed...
...DuMont and ABC television networks, which carried the McCarthy-Army hearings live through 36 days and 186½ hours of testimony, figured out what the public service cost them. ABC paid about $500,000 out of pocket to feed the hearings to as many as 71 outlets, estimated that it would have cost an advertiser $2,700,000 to sponsor the entire telecast of the hearings. The smaller (ten stations) DuMont network used $700,000 worth of air time to carry the hearings, would not say how much the telecasts actually cost...
Spectacular Fireworks. Dumont's favorite subject was cathedrals, and his favorite cathedral was the magnificent Gothic pile in his home town of Rouen. He painted Rouen Cathedral in all lights, seasons and moods. His cathedrals are done in somber but pleasant colors, applied thickly in the manner of Dumont's more famous fellow sufferer, Vincent Van Gogh (opposite). His scenes of Normandy, Montmartre and Marseille and his still lifes are gayer, more vivacious, and show a love of life again strikingly similar to that evidenced in Van Gogh's brilliantly blobbed canvases. Like Van Gogh, Dumont also...
London's critics found nothing static in Dumont's work. The Daily Telegraph hailed him as "an ill-starred artist of genius." The Daily Mail reported that Dumont's pictures had burst "on artistic London with the blazing suddenness of a spectacular fireworks display," and even the staid Times noted: "He was certainly a strong painter . . . Perhaps the real reason [why he was forgotten] was that in an age of formidable individualism, he never developed a highly personal and clearly distinguishable style...