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...floor of the Senate this week, Ike's endangered bill got a sturdy boost from Illinois' Democrat Paul Douglas, who brought back from a recent fact-finding tour of Western Europe new reasons why the U.S. should push for freer trade. Douglas' key points...
CHARLES LANG FREER was a 19th century railroad-car building magnate (Peninsular Car Works) who made a fortune by the time he was 44 and then retired to collect art. The most important result of his efforts is the world's best collection of Chinese bronzes (outside China) at the Freer Gallery on Jefferson Drive in Washington...
...collection, Freer was inspired, in part, by Painter James McNeill Whistler, who was his fast friend. Aroused by Whistler's love for Oriental art, Freer began to decorate his home with Japanese scrolls, Korean metalworks, Chinese bronzes. He made frequent trips to the Orient, bought only the best. In 1904 he offered his whole collection to the Government with two conditions: that the Smithsonian Institution would manage it and that he could keep it until his death. He set up a trust fund to expand the Oriental collections (he prohibited expanding his American art), then gave another...
Self-Conviction. In Versailles, France, Red Cross Worker Maryvonne Daniel. 50, married for 27 years, complained to her husband that "other girls are freer than I am; they are widows or divorcees," was sentenced to eight years in jail for trying to attain widowhood by starting a fire while husband Joseph was asleep...
Marcks, seen here through his woodcuts alone, utilizes an almost completely linear approach. The Orpheus and Eurydice series seeks sculptural monumentality through the use of freer, more flexible line than is commonly found in woodcuts. Paradoxically, the "freer" the line attempts to become, the more it appears as the slave of an unconquered medium. Caught between an oddly Germanic type of flowing grace and a more indigenous forcefulness of expression, the product is unresolved. At times, especially in the matter of such problems as the portrayal of facial expressions, Marcks' drawing becomes trivial, often being nothing short of silly. Ironically...