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Searching for a fountain of youth, Massachusetts Democrats charged forth into a Floridian jungle of inarticulate sincerity a week ago Saturday. Their hearts were pure, their visors shining, and their voices, through the clanking steel of good intentions, hardly audible...
...electric eel of a man with bright eyes and an unruly mop of hair." Helena purchased six gouaches by him. In 1942 she outfitted the cardroom of her New York apartment with three Dali murals depicting Morning, Noon and Night. Flushed with success, Dali next wanted to do a fountain spouting from a piano suspended from the ceiling. "That," he said, "is the essence of surrealism." For once Madame said...
Harris, 61, got into the business by chance. Curious in 1950 about the valu able samples a friend received through the mail, Harris wrote to 100 companies for free samples. He got back 82, including a twelve-can carton of tooth powder and a soda-fountain dispenser of headache powder. Harris conceived a toiletries pack, sold the idea to hotels as a convenience for guests. He eventually signed up 4,000 hotels, sold more to banks looking for new-account come-ons, others to airlines (which give the packs to grounded passengers). The Guest Pac Corp. also sells packs...
...classic dada art work was an ordinary urinal that Marcel Duchamp put in an exhibition and entitled Fountain. It typified the cynical frustration that grew out of World War I, and the movement satirized all the other artistic isms of the time...
...Spies Are, true to formula, dares the challenge of trying to keep its tongue in James Bond's cheek. The setting is Beirut this time, and the man of the Are is David Niven, droll indeed as a middle-aged physician and reckless driver. Photoflash rings, trick fountain pens and the transistor in his lower left molar rather embarrass him. Bribed by British intelligence (running short of certified spies, understandably) with the promise of a Cord Le Baron, Niven flies off to run interference for an oil sheik whose assassination is pending. Among the double-dealers he encounters, none...