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...first birthday, a junket to Moscow was scarcely needed to call attention to Roy Thomson's magazine section. It is now a brightly edited supplement, featuring such bylines as Ian Fleming and Lord Attlee, and the photography of Henri Carder-Bresson and Princess Margaret's Lord Snowdon. The Sunday Times circulation is up 150,000 to 1,166,000, making it by far the largest quality Sunday newspaper in London...
...years since his death in 1901, the dwarfish figure of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec has been surrounded by a fabric of legends-that he was a lecherous troll, happy only when he lived in the midst of a bevy of rowdy streetwalkers; that he was a black sheep and a profligate driven from his home by a wealthy and outraged noble family. The truth of the matter may be quite the opposite, as a show called "Toulouse-Lautrec and His Family" at the Museum of Rennes, France, sets out to prove...
...warmhearted family album of portraits and sketches of the people and things that surrounded the crippled painter after he fell off a chair at the age of 13 and was doomed to live the rest of his days as a short-legged, gloriously talented freak. "L'oncle Henri," says Lautrec's niece. Countess Attems, "is as alive in my memory as though I had seen him yesterday. Afraid of him? Was Snow White frightened by her dwarfs...
...uncles, all did their bit toward the greater grandeur of France. They were artists, too, as proved by their sketches of hunting scenes and country life, which are included in the exhibition. Says Count Robert de Toulouse-Lautrec, the painter's cousin and closest survivor: "Perhaps if Henri had not been deformed, he would have become a diplomat or an officer. But he certainly would have painted...
...threatens to stop Niederhoffer--Henri Salaun. Salaun is on the other side of the draw from Niederhoffer, so the two will clash dramatically late in the tournament. National champion four times--more than any other player--Salaun beat the Harvard junior 3-1 in their only encounter this year, at the Middlesex Bowl tournament in December. But since then Niederhoffer, in the Massachusetts competition, beat Zug shortly after the Princeton graduate had upset Salaun, indicating that the Salaun-Niederhoffer match should be fantastic...