Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Family of Distinction Sir: The Dr. Jean Persons, a public-health physician in Alaska whom you refer to in MEDICINE of the Oct. 6 issue, is the daughter of the Rev. Frank Stanford Persons II. Her uncle, Wilton Burton Persons, is the man President Eisenhower tapped to be his new White House chief of staff (NATIONAL AFFAIRS, same issue...
...Jean (Hans) Arp once outlined his credo. To save man from death by mechanization, Arp for over half a century has made the subconscious and irrational his ally, has turned out objects that profess to explain the metaphysics of the mustache, made eggs, string and shirt fronts serve the purpose of art. In so doing he has earned for himself a reputation as "a one-man laboratory for the discovery of new form." This week Man-hattan's Museum of Modern Art, celebrating its renovation after its near-disastrous fire (TIME, April 28), is giving 71-year-old Sculptor...
...grew up at the watershed point between Germanic and French culture, has managed to make the best of both possible worlds ever since. As Hans Arp he attended the Weimar Art School, came to know Wassily Kandinsky and the proto-abstractionists of the Blue Rider school. As Jean Arp he lived in Paris, where he was a friend of Picasso, Apollinaire and Modigliani. He first made his mark in Zurich as one of the founders of the give-the-bourgeois-hell movement called Dada. So wacky did the Dadaist antics become that Arp had his application for Swiss citizenship turned...
...Case of Dr. Laurent (French). Frankly polemic, frankly physiological, this story of a rural doctor hipped on natural childbirth can claim the virtues of warmth and humor even before the moving, utterly candid final scene; with Jean Gabin, Nicole Courcel...
...Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Jean Kerr...