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...ordered his gendarmes to bring in the head of the killer, a notorious bandit named Dadshah. Nineteen members of Dadshah's band (including his brother Ahmad Shah) were captured as they crossed the border into Pakistan; the rest scattered into the desert and the trackless barrens of the Kuh Sefid mountain range. Occasionally, Dadshah lashed out at his pursuers, as when he raided an encampment of tribesmen commissioned to capture him and killed a dozen of them...
...contemporary painting and sculpture, due to open this week, had installed only a quarter of the nearly 6,000 paintings and sculptures sent in from 34 countries (including Russia for the first time since 1934). Only at the prim brick American Pavilion did contentment reign. Brisk, brusque Katharine Kuh, curator of modern painting at Chicago's Art Institute, had the U.S. contribution all up and dusted. It made a striking show...
...countries exhibiting at Venice's Biennale, the U.S.alone gets by without government sponsorship. By custom, American museums have done the selecting, and private benefactors the financing of the U.S. entries. This year Chicago Financier and Art Patron Arnold Maremont picked up the check, and Katharine Kuh picked out the pictures. Her theme: "American Artists Paint the City...
...theme, illustrated by 46 widely ranging examples, could hardly have been better chosen. As American cities have grown steadily bigger and more weirdly beautiful, the nation's artists have turned increasingly from landscape to cityscape. Curator Kuh blurred her point occasionally by including abstractions from the hands of some artists, e.g., Franz Kline, Willem De Kooning, Jimmy Ernst, which bore no relation to any city unless it was the City of Dreadful Night. But her top choices more than made up for that...
...marriage, Miss Kelly replied "like any girl." Such humility. Like any girl, Grace wants to have a family. This has led to a pool among reporters, the winner guessing the right number of little princes and princesses. The princes, by the way, will be Monegasque (pronounced Mo-nay-gas-kuh) while the daughters will have dual citizenship. But Grace remains faithful to "my beloved country." When she spoke to reporters about her patriotism, she was obviously moved. But when she repeated her statement for the cameras there were tears in her yes. Now that is patriotism...