Word: ets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strongest in works by Crowninshield's old friends, French Painter André Dunoyer de Segonzac and French Sculptor Charles Despiau. Highest price of the auction was $7,250 for de Segonzac's vigorously painted French riverside with a church in the background, L'Eglise et La Marne, Champigny. Another notable price was $2,100 for Jules Pascin's Girl in Green and Rose (see cut), a smoldering, libidinous canvas of a young woman en déshabillé, described in the Crowninshield catalog by Critic Lionello Venturi as a matter of "fascinating nacreous nuances." A Rouault...
...poor but good Crowninshield." His father was a mural painter of independent means. As editor of the late, lamented Vanity Fair Crownie made it a lively canapé-service of contemporary taste, with succulent tidbits of Noel Coward, Colette, Dorothy Parker, Ring Lardner, Harold Nicolson, Edmund Wilson, et...
...with a Floy Floy" in the Sept. 6 issue of TIME has been bothering me ever since I read it, and my distress was fortified by the letters commenting on the article which you published in TIME'S Sept. 27 issue. I decided (in the interests of Lux et Veritas) to do a bit of personal investigation. . . . Circumstances favored me in this quest because...
Aircraft Repair and Storage Depots: Severe damage to two of the largest depots-Méaulte and Romilly-sur-Seine; heavy damage to repair shops at Antwerp, Brussels, Le Bourget, Meulan-les-Mureaux, Nantes; considerable damage to the Gnôme-et-Rhône plant at Le Mans; light damage to Paris' Hispano-Suiza plant, destruction to Paris' Caudron Renault shop; Villacoublay was marked "most severe...
Errol Flynn had more blonde trouble (TIME, Oct. 26, et seq.). Shirley Evans Hassau, long-limbed, curly-locked wife of a singer and mother of a three-year-old girl, charged that Flynn was the baby's father, sued him for $1,750-a-month support, $17,000 for hospital and legal expenses. The actor promised to "fight . . . to the bitter end before I'll make any payoff to avoid unpleasant publicity...