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...produced the greatest work among the Bridge group was one of them for only a year and a half: Emil Nolde, a grim north German, who came equipped with "tempests of color.'' Driven by what he called an "irresistible desire for a representation of the deepest spirituality, religion and fervor,'' Nolde turned to the Gospels, in his Christ Among the Children (see color page) created a new and powerful religious art that not only turns its back on the wrung-out humanism of the Renaissance but achieves in its glowing children and astonished disciples a thick...
Hayhanen was recalled to the Soviet Union last winter, shortly afterward defected to the West. Through him last spring U.S. counter-intelligence got wind of Abel's activities. By that time, under the name of Emil Goldfus, Colonel Abel, the shy spy with the chameleon gift of protective coloration, had rented as headquarters a tiny, $35-a-month studio in a run-down brick building on Brooklyn's drab Fulton Street, within full view of the U.S. Attorney's office...
...Naturalization Service, ordered to make a routine arrest of an illegal alien, found Abel in his hotel room along with a short-wave radio receiver and a bankbook showing deposits of $15,000. Checking Abel's pockets, Boyle discovered $6,000 and a clothing store receipt addressed to Emil Goldfus. "Who's he?" asked Boyle. "That's me," said Abel calmly...
...fought with Tito against the Germans. But being a Croatian peasant who treasured freedom and hated authority, he had no use for Tito's postwar Communist dictatorship. On the inevitable night in 1949 when Tito's secret police came after him, Carmelo and his younger brother Emil fled to Trieste, only a thump ahead of the knock at the door. From their haven just across the border, Carmelo and Emil set up an overland express, guiding Yugoslavs to freedom. Before the year was out, Tito's agents had jailed Carmelo's mother and sister back home...
...Newport, Southampton and Bar Harbor are the.same ones who whip out the frothy fox trots at the coming-out balls in the fall, at the canopied weddings in June; two generations of debutantes have been presented, courted and married under the batons of such bandleaders as Meyer Davis and Emil Coleman. Perhaps the busiest of the musical blue bloods is a springy, raw-nerved little man named Lester Lanin, who believes that nothing in life is more important than serving good music to "society...