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...most adventurous big-money backer modern art has ever known was the late Solomon R. Guggenheim, multi millionaire mining magnate (Alaskan copper, Chilean nitrate, Bolivian tin) who late in life switched from collecting traditional Dutch masters to avant-garde art under the tutelage of his good friend and mentor, Baroness Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen, set up Manhattan's Museum of Non-Objective Painting. Two years ago his nephew, Harry F. Guggenheim, announced a biennial, round-the-world search for new paintings, established a purse of $10,000 for first prize...
This week, as the College of Cardinals balloted on a new Pope, they acted under the tightest code of secrecy in the history of the papacy. Author of the rules, which decreed excommunication for the slightest leak: press-relations-conscious Pius XII, who may have known more about the foibles of Popes' aides and press than anyone thought he knew. With the strict code in force, the edgy press corps watched smoke rise from the chimney in the Sistine Chapel after the first two ballots last week and, in each case, fired off false bulletins. They flashed too soon...
...Spots. Old jazz fans can remember when Dorothy was known merely for her music, not for her mugging. That was 16 years ago when she started swinging the classics for Chicago, her home town. Still, the roots of the clown were there. Even when she was an eight-year-old, baseball-playing tomboy in the South Side black belt, her piano teachers could not wipe off her unconscious grimaces. But for a long while she managed to hold the rest of her contortions in check. An agent got her a job in a Dearborn Street gin mill-the kind...
Among the new autos rolling off the nation's assembly lines this week are two sporty but little-known models with features that no other U.S. cars can match. The cars: 1901 Oldsmobiles, enjoying a jaunty revival in the era of the tail fin and the power brake. The cars are manufactured a scant five miles apart in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. by American Air Products Corp. (whose slogan is "The Backward Look") and by Starts Manufacturing Co. They began producing the cars last year as specialty items and display models for auto dealers and stores. But the antique Oldses...
Furious, he conducts a one-man raid on a well-known elephant trapper's stockade. He sets fire to an ivory merchant's store. He pumps some buckshot into the backside of a big U.S. TV personality (Orson Welles). Inexplicably, the great man presents the crazy dentist to the U.S. public as a glorious but unsung hero, "a modern Robin Hood...