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...Historian Albert E. Elsen, the dean of Rodin scholars; but it is also the work of a formidable team of French and American art historians who contributed essays to the catalogue, including Ruth Butler (on Rodin's context as a working artist in the 19th century salons) and Kirk Varnedoe (on Rodin's drawings and the role of photography in his work). For Elsen, this show is the summa of 20 years' engagement with its subject...
...politics also proved too strong for the United Auto Workers union, which forced him out of his post as chapter secretary in 1947. By the time he won a seat in the state legislature in 1964, Young had moved toward the political center, but he still harbors memories. Says Kirk Cheyfitz, editor of Detroit Monthly magazine: "Young draws his energy from the carefully preserved sense of outrage he discovered while being kicked around as a poor black...
DIED. Mary Lou Williams, 71, influential jazz pianist, arranger and composer who worked with the likes of Louis Armstrong, Andy Kirk, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie in a career that spanned most of the major eras and styles of jazz; of cancer; in Durham, N.C. Rooted in blues and boogie-woogie, Williams was a consistently adventurous and idiosyncratic performer who played a formative role in the development of bebop in the 1940s and even experimented somewhat in the "free" improvisations of recent years...
Central casting has sent the moneymen to help direct the entertainment industry's new wave. They are businessmen who have earned their fortunes in other fields and are now conquering Hollywood. Examples: MGM's Kirk Kerkorian, a onetime airline financier, and Denver Oilman Marvin Davis, who liquidated his energy holdings in order to buy 20th Century...
...part of the new emphasis on ethics, Professor Kirk Hanson focuses on notable cases like that of Carl Kotchian, the former vice chairman of Lockheed, who was accused of bribing Japanese officials and forced to resign. Says Hanson: "We debate where responsibility lies in a corporation. To your employees, whose jobs might be lost if the company loses the contract? To the Japanese people, whose government is involved in corruption? To competitors