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Among modern-art enthusiasts, pretty Franchise Gilot, 30, must rest her main claim to fame on her great & good friendship with Pablo Picasso. Since 1945? she has kept house for him on the French Riviera, served as model for dozens of portraits, borne him two children, Claude (four) and Paloma...
Franchise, who paints between household chores, had found her subjects close by: vegetables, flowers, kitchen utensils, portraits of her children. Stylistically she stayed close to home too, turned out canvases that looked as though they might have been painted over the aging master's shoulder. "Picasso never gave me...
At the show's opening last week, Picasso, who considers Franchise's work "Beautiful and serious," arrived early and proudly signed the guest register. Paris critics were less friendly. Only two papers, both of them Communist and thus naturally solicitous for Comrade Picasso, bothered to review the exhibition...
Houston's hard-drinking, free-spending Oilman Glenn McCarthy has been trying to find some new money fast. In November, he dashed over to Egypt, trying for an oil franchise (TIME, Dec. 3). Next, he rushed off to Guatemala, talked of starting a chain of hotels and a gambling...
The reaction was sharp and strong. Opposition Leader J. G. Strauss, now the leader of Smuts's old United Party, called it "a great act of betrayal." So did a group of enraged South African war veterans, who formed the anti-Malan "Torch Commando" to protect the Constitution. Their...