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...hard on those around him, but it produced some of the most delicate and influential works of art ever to come out of Britain. Manhattan's Otto Gerson Gallery this week shows 44 Turner water-colors and drawings, assembled in the U.S. and Britain by Art Critic Katharine Kuh, that clearly show how far ahead of his time Turner...
...Toward. The Russians called their shot carefully. They did not give its exact moment of launching and delayed first announcement long enough to permit a fairly accurate forecast of the rocket's trajectory. As a hedge they used the Russian preposition k (pronounced "kuh"), which means both to and toward. Thus they might have been shooting either at or toward the moon. The final payload, they said, was a sphere weighing 859.8 lbs. and carefully sterilized to avoid contaminating the moon. It was slightly heavier than the payload of Lunik I that missed the moon...
Since the resignation of Daniel Catton Rich last year, the Chicago Institute has been run by Acting Director Allan McNab, with a powerful assist from strong-minded Katherine Kuh, curator of paintings and sculpture. McNab will stay on as director of administration (staff: 405), thus freeing Maxon for matters of art. A bachelor, Maxon was born in Salt Lake City, trained at Manhattan's Cooper Union Art School and the University of Michigan, took his doctorate at Harvard...
...That all depends," says Katherine Kuh, "on how it is done." Muses Maxon: "In some areas of American life there is a thing called togetherness, but in museums we have each-otherness, and that is even harder to bear...
Three months ago the gendarme net closed around the rugged slopes of Haft Kuh (Seven Mountains), where Dadshah and the remnants of his outlaws had gone to earth. Last week the police began the final assault on his mountain stronghold and carried the rampart in hand-to-hand fighting. Eight gendarmes died, but they accomplished their mission: Dadshah and another of his brothers were killed, and the rest of his band surrendered...