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...story. Under editor Kurt Korff and publishing director Kurt Safranski, anywhere from two to five pages of BIZ, heavily dappled with photos, were devoted to a single topic: the daily routine at a Trappist monastery, the drama of a parachute jump. BIZ, London's Picture Post (edited by Stefan Lorant) and the elegant French magazine Vu drew upon a breed of independent artist-photographer, often with one foot in Bohemia, to capture the arresting aspect of the everyday. Among the foremost practitioners were the German emigre Tim Gidal and Hungarian-born Andre Kertesz, whose enigmatic views of the Eiffel Tower...
...discussion of whether President Kennedy put his hand on the Bible when he took the oath: Apparently Rutherford B. Hayes and Calvin Coolidge were sworn in as President without putting their hands on the Bible, as shown in Lorant's The Presidency...
...LIFE AND TIMES OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT, by Stefan Lorant (640 pp.; Doubleday; $15), will seem as essential to admirers of Teddy Roosevelt as Lorant's Lincoln is to worshipers of Honest Abe. The text is painstaking rather than incisive, but the 750 pictures have the cumulative effect of a cradle-to-grave biography that hardly requires words to give it significance...
...Newton Santos. Stubbornly impartial, English Referee Arthur Ellis threw both men out of the game. After that the two teams spent as much energy booting each other about the field as they spent on the ball. In the last few minutes, an enthusiastic Brazilian dropkicked Hungarian Back Gyula Lorant squarely into the nets for a field goal. It did not add to the score, heartwarming as the effort was, and Hungary...
...election as President. Other Stroke of Fate teasers: Suppose Montcalm had defeated Wolfe at Quebec, Hamilton had killed Burr in their duel, Hitler had been killed in the Munich beer-hall Putsch? The program's solid grounding in historical fact (Nevins and Historian Stefan Lorant are regular advisers) and able dramatizations give it plausibility and high marks for entertainment...