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Grey mustache abristle, Scholar Raugel hauled out his proofs. Composer Moulinié, he declared, had never written a mass, much less one for a French king. Moulinié was court composer to Gaston-Jean-Baptiste d'Orléans, Louis XIll's brother and enemy, and was persona non grata at Louis' court. Moreover, trumpets were not used as musical instruments until the 18th century, and Vivat Rex was never sung at the end of a mass; it was shouted three times before the mass began. Raugel had suspected Father Martin's "discovery...
...Gaston was trained to be a lawyer, Raymond a doctor, Marcel a librarian. But to young men out for excitement in turn-of-the-century Paris, the studios of Montmartre were irresistible, so the Duchamp boys all ended up artists. Even sister Suzanne tagged along, tried her hand at brush and canvas. Last week a Manhattan exhibit of the four Duchamps gave a nostalgic glimpse of modern art's brash young cubist days, and brought the Duchamp family up to date...
...GASTON changed his name to Jacques Villon so that his disapproving father, a provincial lawyer, would not know that he was neglecting the law for art. Now, at 76, he has a solid place among France's old guard modernists. In such recent canvases as La Grande Faucheuse aux Chevaux he uses brighter colors than in early days, but sticks to his conviction that nature is most interesting when reduced to blocks...
Alphonse & Gaston. The Congressman explained that he did not expect a direct reply, and the general made none. But both were aware that they faced a double problem: Eisenhower had to be convinced that the Republicans really wanted him, and Republican politicians had to be convinced that Ike wanted their support. In the old comic strip, Alphonse & Gaston often bumped heads as they tried to bow each other through a door. The Eisenhower campaign is in danger of a similar impasse. To get Ike and the Republican politicians through the door together will be a difficult, tricky job of organization...
...Herter (Eliot) E 12 Major Close (Eliot) E 13 Tom Johnson (Lowell) E 14 Lowell Sachnoff (Leverett) E 15 Ken Herlihy (Leverett) E 16 Howard Townsend (Adams) T 17 Mark Collins (Eliot) T 18 Luke Lockwood (Eliot) T 19 Robert Wiley (Lowell) T 20 Richard Bowditch (Lowell) T 21 Gaston Palaclos (Leverett) T 22 Richard Farrington (Leverett) T 23 John Turner (Adams) G 24 Tom Vickery (Adams) G 25 Dugald Fletcher (Eliot) G 26 Charles Squler (Lowell) G 27 James Lawson (Lowell) G 28 Lee Slegel (Leverett) G 29 Dick Green (Leverett) G 30 Elhanan Stone (Adams) C 31 Dudley...