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...career as a sculptor. When he was a youthful art student in Paris, his father, a Lithuanian contractor, lost all his money, told Jacques to give up and come home; Lipchitz got a part-time job, kept on with his studies. In 1941 the Nazis forced Lipchitz to flee from France; with only $20 to his name and some of his drawings, the sculptor had to begin all over again in the U.S. In 1952, just as he had recovered from this blow, a fire burned his Manhattan studio and all it contained into cinders and melted plasteline; Lipchitz...
...your March 22 "Flight to the Suburbs": if some people were lucky enough to be able to flee from the city with its dirt, noise, industry and screaming advertisements, it is sad that industry should be allowed to pursue them and intrude upon their hard-won right to privacy. An eternal cycle results, and families will have to begin anew the futile flight to territory not yet infested by industry. The rapid spreading of factories and stores through residential areas horrifies me and many other people who want to breathe fresh air in their free time...
Caravaggio's career was as brief as it was spectacular. A notorious brawler, he eventually stabbed and killed a crony in a dispute over a tennis score, and had to flee Rome. He found refuge at Malta, where he painted a portrait of the Grand Master and was rewarded with a knighthood. But then he assaulted a fellow knight and was imprisoned. He escaped, made his way to Tuscany, was arrested for a crime he had not committed. Soon afterward, he died of fever. He was then...
...however, soon discovered other leads. One was that Shakespeare's father got into trouble in Stratford, presumably for remaining a Roman Catholic. At that time, says Keen, he might well have wanted to send his son away from Stratford, and it was quite possible that he let him flee with his Catholic schoolmaster Simon Hunt, who apparently found his way to an English Catholic college in Rheims, France. In any case, Shakespeare was later to refer to that college in The Taming of the Shrew ("I . . . freely give unto you this young scholar that hath been long studying...
...year, more than 145.000 sq. ft. of space was rented in an empty arms factory in nearby Oberkochen. Operating on loans from German banks, plus $2,000,000 in Marshall Plan money, the plant employed 2.800 by 1952. About a third were experienced Zeiss hands who managed to flee East Germany, both repelled by Communist domination and lured by the memory of their past treatment by Zeiss, which was one of the first companies in the world to provide pensions, free medical care, profit sharing, paid vacations and overtime...