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Fernand Léger looks hard as flint at 69, lives in a chaotically cluttered Montparnasse studio, and has 100 pupils-most of them ex-G.I.s. Léger's own Leisure seems half daguerreotype and half poster. It shows that he himself has come a long way from the brash, machine-tooled "Tubist" abstractions of his early days. He painted it during World War II, which he spent in Manhattan. "Because of the gasoline shortage," he recalls, "the city was suddenly teeming with bikes, and I was much impressed by the many attractive girls I saw pedaling...
...accused by his enemies of every sharp business trick in the book, and suspected even by his friends of chewing broken Coca-Cola bottles to strengthen his teeth. Son Bob is a chip off the old block. The steel of Young Bob's determination early clashed with the flint of his father's will, and the resulting sparks could have lit up Atlanta and environs. Bob quit Emory University and went to work selling fire extinguishers. He did so well that his father relented, gave him a job in the Atlantic Ice & Coal Co. (which he owned along...
...Hard Feelings. In Flint, Mich., burglar left a note in the Genesee County Savings Bank: "Thanks very much, didn't get a damn thing, but thanks...
...almost all G.M. cars there was a significant change in pricing. Most of the extras that had formerly come on cars as "standard" equipment, although at extra cost, were now optional. Thus, a Chewy business coupe could be bought for as little as $1.250 f.o.b. Flint...
...little New Hampshire town of Keenham, where he raises his children and wins the affection of the community through his untiring medical service. For 20 years, he is completely accepted; then, abruptly exposed. The impact of this exposure on the little New England village is like that of flint on stone. Sparks fly--the sparks of bitter reaction--and the result is keen drama...