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Died. Henri Verne, 68, longtime director of Paris' famed Louvre, who proved that the Mona Lisa, which was recovered after the 1911 theft, was Leonardo Da Vinci's and not one faked by the thief; in Paris. Verne directed the renovation of the museum during the '305, planned the evacuation of the art treasures during World...
...Ashby faction found powerful leaders on the faculty. Among them were Economist Tucker P. Smith, head of the Olivet Teachers' Union and the 1948 Socialist candidate for Vice President, and Pacifist Carleton Mabee, of the history department, winner in 1944 of the Pulitzer Prize for biography (The American Leonardo). Student intellectuals lined up behind Smith as a Student Action Committee. "The S.A.C.'s," jeered Ashbyite Clark Balch, a 30-year-old senior and football tackle, "are the kind of people who like art and music and stay up till 4 a.m. reading the classics. We like to play...
Somoza may wonder now why he ever got involved in such a silly business. Over in the Dominican Republic, Dictator Trujillo brazened it out, elected himself a fourth time. Somoza, on the other hand, found that Leonardo Argüello, the stooge he had got elected, did not intend to be a stooge. Argüello began calling on Guardia officers to declare their loyalty to him. Almost half of them did. Then Argüello overreached himself: he gave Tachito Somoza a dressing down, banished him from the capital. Papa Tacho moved in. Argüello fled...
...Help Wanted ad. Result: one Lynn Belvedere is hired sight unseen. To their dismay, Lynn turns out to be a middle-aged male (Clifton Webb), who coolly describes himself as a genius. He is also a polysyllabic practitioner of yoga, and easily the most versatile handyman since Leonardo da Vinci. Before he is done with solving problems and subjugating parents, he fries the whole community...
...lives in this book as a powerful, eloquent, ugly, passionate, courageous spokesman of the Revolution in the days before the Terror. The great moment that made him historic is scarcely more than an episode. His life was full of them. Author Antonina Vallentin (Leonardo da Vinci) has written a long, detailed work, half a psychological study, half an account of the Revolution, drawn with rough and scratchy pen strokes, all laid against a dark and ominous background that recalls Goya's grim drawings...