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...filly named Angelola in the big race, but Queen Elizabeth didn't give the royal entry a prayer. Said she: "I think I should back My Love." So did most of the 400,000 fans lining the track at Doncaster, England, for last week's St. Leger (rhymes with quaint ledger). My Love was the 7-to-4 favorite; the Aga Khan's mahogany three-year-old had already won the Epsom Derby and the French Grand Prix...
After that, Kootz's own local stable of U.S. painters could only irritate, not shock. Fernand Leger brought up the rear with one of his obsessive puzzles: three ropey girls tied in a Gordian knot. Venus de Milo was obviously as out of fashion as a pretty knee...
...lowans that there is more to art than Grant Wood ever dreamed of. Wrote Editor Don Berry of the Indianola Record Herald and Tribune (circ. 3,693): Such paintings could only come from the mentally unbalanced. (The paintings come from such old hands at modernism as Stuart Davis, Fernand Leger, Karl Zerbe and Salvador Dali...
Frederick St. Leger Daly...
Paepcke's Packages. Chief credit for Container's collection went to its sleek president, Walter Paul Paepcke (pronounced Pep-key), 48. Handsome, greying Elizabeth ("Pussy") Paepcke, his wife, rated an assist; an amateur painter and enthusiastic collector (of Picasso, Leger, Degas), she got her sales-minded husband interested in art. By 1937, he was so thoroughly sold that he not only had Container's products designed in streamlined shapes, but decided to advertise them-something unheard of in the paperboard industry...