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Married. Alfred A. Knopf, 74, Manhattan book publisher (Freud, Mann, Mencken, Sartre, Updike), who in 1960 sold his firm to Random House for about $3,000,000, while remaining as board chairman; and Helen Hedrick, 64, sometime novelist (The Blood Remembers, which Knopf published in 1941); both for the second time (his first wife died last year; her husband died in 1963); in Rio de Janeiro...
...about Louis' canvases is their simplicity. They are devoid of any recognizable form; color is forced to carry the burden of Louis' whole message. He was a cubist and linear abstractionist for most of his life, but on a 1953 visit to New York, he saw Abstractionist Helen Frankenthaler experimenting with poured paint. Captivated, he abandoned brushes altogether, began thinning his paint, allowing it to wash in great waves down huge canvases. The resulting panoramas became his celebrated "veils of color...
Karen Leslie (Helen) presented a vaudeville version of a whore. She rolled her eyes, knocked her knees, travelled from corner to corner like frantic lizard. She was too flashy to be forty. And she never indicated that in spite of their daily bickering matches, a bond exists between mother and daughter...
...nothing but an unending, unchanging series of days-boring, frustrating, futile. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow-a tale told by an idiot, and you're the idiot. It's 10:30 and I'm tired. I'll just have to write Aunt Jean and Aunt Helen and Aunt Charlotte tomorrow...
...There was something almost diabolical about Verwoerd," says Helen Suzman, the opposition Progressive Party's only member in Parliament, "something on a different plane, above influencing, that actually made me frightened of the man. Vorster is flesh and blood...