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AUSTRIAN EXPRESSIONISTS-St.Etienne,24 West 57th. A good peek at the southerly, softer version of Teutonic expressionism: 67 watercolors, drawings and prints by Oskar Kokoschka, Alfred Kubin, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Laske, L. H. Jungenickel, Anton Faistauer, and Herbert Boeckl. along with a rare Self-Portrait by the late gifted Richard Gerstl, the second work of the posthumously discovered artist ever to be on view in the U.S. Through...
...Egon Matzner, official of the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions, declared, "There can be no greater mistake than to think of the six countries of Western Europe as all of Europe." Matzner emphasized the vital role of the European neutrals--Austria, Switzerland, and the Scandinavian countries, in encouraging better relations between Eastern and Western Europe...
...Germany's lean years after World War II, ex-General Staff Major Egon Overbeclc, now 44, financed his studies at Frankfurt University by working for Metallgesellschaft, a widely diversified industrial combine. After earning a doctorate in business administration in 1952, Overbeck stayed on with the company, began to leapfrog up the executive ladder. His big break came in 1956 when he was named chief financial and administrative officer of one of Metallgesell-schaft's major subsidiaries. He was lured away from that post by rival Mannesmann, West Germany's second largest steelmaker (after Krupp), which was searching...
...Died. Egon Petri, 81, pianist exemplar of Liszt's fluidly romantic style, the urbane son of a Dutch musical family, who was revered in Russia as the first foreign pianist permitted to tour (in 1923) by the Bolsheviks and later fled the Nazis to the U.S. where he taught at Cornell, Mills College and the San Francisco Conservatory; of a stroke; in Berkeley, Calif...
Geologist Egon T. Degens of Caltech has all but destroyed this romantic notion. Taking samples from the interiors of two porous nonmetallic meteorites -the sort that are supposed to contain traces of "exo-life"-he ground the material and boiled it, first in water, then in alcohol, then for ten hours in dilute sulphuric acid. After that, he simmered his sample for 22 hours in hydrochloric acid. The well cooked extract contained a rich assortment of chemicals characteristic of living organisms, including amino acids and simple sugars...