Word: legere
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...Night, after him. For 22 years, until his retirement in 1956, Murphy was president of Fifth Avenue's chic Mark Cross leather-goods store, which his father began. Until his death last week at 76, he never bought any modern art or hung anything more than one Leger in his house. But during one short period of his life, Gerald Murphy did ten paintings that by their precisionist style and representation of commonplace objects stunningly foreshadowed the best of today...
...truth, Lucien Leger, 27, looked disappointingly unlike most Parisians' spine-tingling image of I'etrangleur, the Jekyll-and-Hyde strangler who had hogged the headlines and taunted the police for 40 days. "The Machiavelli of crime," as France-Soir had dubbed him, turned out to be a colorless, bespectacled little (5 ft. 4 in., 130 Ibs.) male student nurse from the shabby suburb of Villejuif. His hobby was writing banal verse, which he set to borrowed music; he even paid to have his songs recorded and issued in a jacket flatteringly decorated with his face and name...
...Parke-Bernet auction lists, and color transparencies. On his desk sits a tiny Daumier bronze of a humble country bumpkin. He also wants his employees to appreciate art, gives them plenty to look at. Rarely have they failed to enjoy it, but once he had to take down a Leger tapestry of a mechanical man in the office foyer. Employees read themselves uncomfortably into the image...
...running 87-year-old Maremont, which was founded by his father, he has interests in paper and in a maker of Christmas-tree balls, has backed a Broadway musical (The Most Happy Fella), and owns a chunk of the Saturday Review. His collection of modern art contains Dubuffet, Braque, Leger, Gris, Pollock, Arp and Kline, is valued at more than...
...ability to express himself with elegance and precision is highly prized at the Quai. Novelist Remain Gary and Playwright Jean Giraudoux were foreign service officers; Poet St. John Perse (actually Alexis Leger) rose to the No. 2 post at the Quai; and Stendhal wrote The Charterhouse of Parma while in the diplomatic corps. Richelieu once effortlessly composed a 500-line insert for Corneille's verse drama, Le Cid, to replace a passage of the author's that Richelieu thought in bad taste...