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Businessman's Investment. The collection was the work of a pair of hardheaded Paris businessmen, Department Store Owner (La Samaritaine) Ernest Conacq and his nephew Gabriel. Ernest, who started out in 1851 as a twelve-year-old calico salesman and 30 years later owned a $4,000,000 business, was a man with little interest in Paris artistic life. ("It's fine until the music starts," he would say of opéra comique. "Then I fall asleep.") But he did have a bargain-hunter's eye for valuable painting. Shopping around, he put some...
...Gabriel took up where his uncle left off. Buying sparely but wisely, and using his money to sponsor rising artists, he soon became a widely respected patron of the arts. Then World War II came along...
...proposition-to a Frenchman-was absurdly simple: if the French army is not all it once was, it is due to the fact that the French soldier is not getting enough wine. "Wine," explained Gaullist Deputy Gabriel Seynat, a physician and winegrower himself, "contains phosphates, glycerine, iron, minerals and vitamins. It furnishes the organism with tissue and energy. It aids digestion, increases cerebral activity, appeases fatigue and creates the strength to work." Moreover, continued the deputy, wine "induces a state of euphoria that gives one confidence...
...outskirts of Mexico City, where they steal, beat up a blind beggar, attack a legless man and commit murder. Filmed in Mexico as Los Olvidados (The Forgotten Ones), the picture was directed by Spam's onetime surrealist Moviemaker Luis Bunuel and photographed by Mexico's famed Cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa. The Young and the Damned is in the raw, realistic tradition of such classic juvenile-delinquency movies as the Russian Road to Life, the American Wild Boys of the Road and the Italian Shoe Shine. In some respects it is the most powerful and ruthless...
...Angel Gabriel? He would not, Newbold said, have appointed either man in the first place. When he was asked, "Has Vaughan been fired?" he replied, significantly, "Not yet." He was asked if he thought cabinet members who tolerated corruption should be fired. He answered: "What's so wonderful about a cabinet member?" He waxed sarcastic when someone wanted to know why Truman had ordered the cleanup drive. "Who," he intoned, "is to know whether the Angel Gabriel appeared to the President...