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Deep in his heart, every art collector yearns to pick up a painting for a few dollars, dust it off and discover it is really a long-lost old master. For one collector, the wish has come true. In Johannesburg, Businessman (tire-recapping) Maurice Hirsch poked around at a local auction sale and bought for $375 a painting he thought "looked good." Local collectors were doubtful, but Hirsch sent detail photographs of the painting to Belgian Historian Leo van Puyvelde. The verdict: Van Puyvelde had examined that very painting before in 1937. It is, he wrote, L'Erection...
...organ, and what they wrote was largely insignificant. But in recent decades, the pope of the musical world has begun a major comeback. Modern U.S. composers * Walter Piston, Roger Sessions, Quincy Porter, Leo Sowerby-have written dozens of organ pieces, and U.S. audiences have found a new interest in long-lost chords. Leader of the organ revival is E. (for Edward) Power Biggs, 48, the U.S.'s most noted organist, who plays weekly (Sunday mornings) CBS radio programs. His Columbia LP recordings have sold more than 100,000 copies in the past five years. "It's still less...
...International) tries to do for West Berlin what The Third Man did so successfully for Vienna. Refugee Dirk Bogarde has confessed to a murder he did not commit because he thinks he has nothing left to live for. But as soon as he begins serving his life term, his long-lost girl friend (Mai Zetterling) turns up. Breaking out of jail to clear his name, Bogarde is hounded through the rubble-strewn ruins by the police and matches wits with skulking black-marketeers. The film fails because its events are too predictable for suspense, its hero and heroine too coldly...
...little later-such is the long, slapping arm of coincidence in this novel-the chicken turns out to be Claude, a long-lost childhood sweetheart. Francois first knew Claude Herber and her brother Jean Jacques when they were children and lived in the country together, roaming the woods like a junior fan club for the Marquis de Sade. They played flogging games with horsewhips. Lashing Claude and another playmate, Denise, had been the best fun of all-"so sweet." Claude murmured, fondling her wound, "that afterwards one would like to be whipped again...
...recalling his past, said Cummings, he was recreating a world of "long-lost personages: my parents and their sons." He will, in his next lecture, describe "the mysterious moment of self-discovery" after which he became the poetry he writes...