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...produced the catalogue to prove it. Delighted, Picasso grabbed some colored crayons, whipped off a quick sketch on the catalogue's cover showing a faun with red eyes, blue nose and green beard, then signed it as a souvenir of the visit (see cut). For the firsthand account that Klein brought back with him of Picasso's life today, plus an evaluation of Picasso's most comprehensive U.S. show thus...
...Pocatello's Idaho State Journal retorts: "Ivory Tower." Although he draws the line at serving as publicity chairman, Wagnon is glad to work in other posts for service and civic groups. "I believe," he argues, "that only by working with people, can [an editor] obtain that intimate, firsthand knowledge that makes for accurate reporting, and editorial comment and criticism that is easy, natural and fair." Wagnon admits that the community-conscious reporter gets his sympathies involved with his projects, but concludes: "But you become a first-class citizen instead of a second-class citizen who leaves the work...
...great is Soviet Russia's storehouse of modern art, still largely hidden away in the storerooms of Leningrad's Hermitage Museum? Answer last week from a man with firsthand knowledge: "The Hermitage has the greatest collection of Picassos before 1914, and the greatest collection of Matisses anywhere. Its Gauguin collection is by far the greatest in the world. In Cézannes, it is second among institutional collections only to the Barnes collection in Merion, Pa. And it has three first-rate Rousseaus. The Van Goghs are excellent. From the period of say 1885 to 1914, its pictures...
...contrast, The Conquistadors, by French Scholar Jean Descola, lacks the firsthand touch of that truly wonderful story; it is a brilliant work of historical synthesis, written with an eloquence that is Spanish and an aphoristic bite that is French. For part of the way the two books travel together, since both chronicle the Cortés conquest. The 16th century soldier and the 20th century scholar tell much the same story-the fantastic saga of Hernán Cortés, a vagabond student from Salamanca who became one of the most famous conquerors in history...
FLYING back from the South Pole to McMurdo Sound one day this month, Correspondent Edwin Rees of TIME'S Washington Bureau learned firsthand about the dread Antarctic whiteout, the dazzle of reflected light that erases all landmarks and horizons. It was, said an airman, "like flying inside a pingpong ball." The big Air Force troop carrier groped for the icy runway, plowed into a snowbank and slithered over the ice with nose down and tail high. "The feel and sound of 150,000 pounds of airplane sliding out of control is an experience I would like only once," said...