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Grand Scale. When Kaiser needed more cement for his prewar construction projects, he founded a cement company and one to supply sand and gravel. As an industrialist he followed this idea on a grander scale. Because steel shipments were slow, he organized Kaiser Steel at Fontana, Calif., with a $123 million Reconstruction Finance Corp. loan that brought considerable criticism from Congress and Wall Street alike. He dabbled in airplanes, and with Howard Hughes conceived the idea of a ten-engine cargo plane that never got off the drafting board. Later he founded Kaiser Aluminum...
Sine Qua N/on. The case under review was that of Albert Alfred Fontana, a former state trapshooting champion, who had shot and killed his estranged wife after she refused a reconciliation. Found incapable of standing trial because of insanity, he was placed in a state mental hospital where, after a few months under the care primarily of Dr. Carl Schwartz, he recovered enough to face a court. He pleaded not guilty by virtue of insanity, and the prosecution called Dr. Schwartz, who, over defense objections, stated that "Mr. Fontana was aware that he was doing something wrong...
...began spicing her recital programs with Beatle numbers, arranged in classic styles by artists such as Pianist Peter Serkin, who scored a contrapuntal Bachground for Yesterday. She has now recorded a dozen Beatle songs on an LP called Revolution, which was recently released in the U.S. on the Fontana label in a jacket that sedulously apes the Beatles' last album, Revolver...
...week was a lucky week for Les Levine, a 31-year-old leprechaun who was born in Dublin, studied art in London, and has since migrated to New York to become a member of the rapidly expanding environmental school of art. Like George Segal, Edward Kienholz, Jim Dine, Lucio Fontana, Louise Nevelson, Cassen & Stern, Lucas Samaras and a host of others, Levine makes total rooms, not individual works of art. Most environmental artists, however, are lucky if they can manage to get one room displayed at a time in a single city. Last week in Manhattan, Les Levine...
CLEO LAINE-WOMAN TALK (Fontana). Miss Laine is one of England's best song stylists; on this LP she puts her own cool, husky mark on such standards as I Cover the Waterfront and By Myself...