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...scarred hero of France's World War II Resistance, during which he helped more than 5,000 French prisoners escape the Germans. He spends little time in the mayor's office, can more often be found directing Dijon's traffic, perched at the top of a fireman's ladder, or passing the time of day in a workers' bistro. Convinced that Khrushchev's professed desire to end the cold war must be taken at face value, the canon weeks ago announced that if he got the chance, he would welcome Khrushchev to Dijon with...
...tangle of white-painted iron in the garden of the Museum of Modern Art. An hour and a half later, the suicide-fated machine started flaming and sawing at its mixed-up insides, turned balky despite several judiciously aimed kicks from its creator, got doused betimes by an anxious fireman, and had to be finished off with...
...crowd was patient, and only booed the intruding fireman (who may have remembered that the Modern was almost destroyed by fire a scant two years ago). What the connoisseurs witnessed for their pains was an unbeautiful joke with no punch line. As the New York Times's Critic John Canaday gently put it: "Mr. Tinguely makes fools of machines while the rest of mankind permits machines to make fools of them. Tinguely's machine wasn't quite good enough, as a machine, to make his point...
...when he enlisted in the Army during World War I. At war's end he went to Shanghai, took over the tiny insurance department of a Shanghai bank, converted it into an independent firm -American Asiatic Underwriters - and be came agent for a dozen U.S. insurance companies, including Fireman's Fund, Continental and Great American. He violated the custom of the European colony by giving responsible jobs to Chinese, thus opened up the Chinese community to his salesmen. His Asian pool expanded so rapidly that in 1926 Starr returned to New York and created the American International Underwriters...
...reference to your Dec. 7 article on the rescue of William Buie, fireman third class, after falling overboard from his ship, U.S.S. Arnold J. Isbell, by the U.S.S. Frank Knox: I feel strongly that more credit should be given to the sailor directly responsible by hearing William Buie's yelling plea. You should have printed his picture and given his name. This boy deserves plaudits for being aware of his surroundings and using his ears not merely for hearing but for listening. L.R. Seyfried St. Louis...