Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slow, gradual removal of the tangled barriers, prohibitions and nationalist restrictions. At Geneva last year 18 nations had managed to write a draft charter for the proposed International Trade Organization, a project which, in the somewhat startling words of Sir Stafford Cripps, "had never before been attempted except at the tower of Babel." At Havana, where the nations convened last November to mold the Geneva draft into final shape, Babel's spirit still prevailed...
That sounded rather professorial, for a painter, but it helped some. A TIME correspondent who penetrated Matisse's seclusion last week found him far warmer than his words might indicate. At 78, Matisse spends half of each day in bed, and never leaves his house except for a short stroll in the garden after lunch. Illness has not dulled his appetite for life or for work. His blue eyes twinkle youthfully behind his thick glasses; his snowy little beard, jollity and industriousness make him seem something like Santa Claus. His bedroom and studio are both brighter than any toyshop...
Struggle for the Minimum. A meticulous dandy, Matisse wears a light tweed jacket and tie when he is painting. Never using a palette, he squeezes the colors on to plain white kitchen dishes and uses them just as they come out of the tube, except for the addition of a little turpentine. Each picture starts with a fairly detailed charcoal sketch; he gradually simplifies it as he paints. This process of simplification, he says, is the very symbol of his life: "A constant struggle for complete expression with a minimum of elements...
...health limits Matisse's pleasures almost entirely to his work. He sees almost no one except the handsome Russian woman, Livia Delectorskaya, who has been his chief model, housekeeper, secretary and protector for 15 years. Livia rounds up other models for the master-a hard job in provincially prudish Vence. Sometimes she returns with the 26-year-old girl who is the town's one harlot, who describes Matisse as "a wonderfully sweet old man, always chattering while I pose." Matisse avoids fellow artists ("I can't see many people nowadays"). But the old man loves...
Retaliation. Foote insisted it was as one-sided as that, although he conceded that "no agency ever before resigned an account of this size except to avoid being fired." This week, F. C. & B. was, in effect, fired. It had offered to carry on for as long as it took to find a successor, but American Tobacco wasted no time in finding one. Effective forthwith, it named Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. as the new agency for Lucky Strike advertising, turned its Pall Mall account over to Sullivan, Stauffer, Colwell & Bayles...