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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Opener Approach. No one viewing Kokoschka's work is likely to accuse him of over-idealization (see color pages); he himself refers to his subjects, most of them close friends, as "my victims." Explains Kokoschka: "My first aim is to find a streak in the personality of the subject, something that the photographer will not be able to reproduce. I have to break through the secret law and pattern of each person, as if I were using a can opener. Then I start painting with my eyes, my heart, my nerves, my antennae...
Russian economic offers often prove less attractive than they first seem; most countries have to accept barter instead of hard cash, often find Russian goods shoddy, Soviet maintenance poor. But so long as the threat of a congressional cutback in U.S. aid and trade programs and increasing pressure for more U.S. tariffs on basic commodities exist, the attractions of the Soviet lure are apt to become even stronger. U.S. business will not only lose some of its present markets, but, far more important, will be kept out of the markets of the future...
...that the inquisitor asked his friends such questions as "I'd like to know how Mr. Beynon made his money." Williams also checked police records on Beynon, but all he could dig up was a traffic violation. Explained Williams: "It's normal business practice for me to find out all I can about the man I'm dealing with." Yet he admitted that Freeport had never before hired a private eye to track...
...foreign manager of the proper Sunday Times. He is married to the former Lady Rothermere, whose press-lord husband named him as corespondent in a divorce suit in 1952. At Goldeneye, his luxurious Jamaica residence, Clubman Fleming has been host to his convalescing friend, Sir Anthony Eden. His critics find his shockers all the more unspeakable because he is so much a member of The Establishment.* Yet Fleming is no Spillane. His closest U.S. opposite number, Raymond (The Big Sleep) Chandler calls him "masterly." And Novelist Elizabeth Bowen says: "Here's magnificent writing...