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Most embattled of all the Independents' veterans, 69-year-old John Sloan, a scrappy, Pennsylvania-born Scotch-Irishman, has long been one of the most engaging personalities of the U.S. art world. One New Year's Eve, with Artist Marcel Duchamp (famed for his Nude ,Descending the Staircase), John Sloan climbed to the top of Washington Square's Arch, there built a bonfire and read a solemn declaration proclaiming Greenwich Village an independent republic. Less violent than his speeches and ideas were John Sloan's trenchant, Daumier-like paintings and etchings of Manhattan street and rooftop...
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat Major (Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski, with Oboist Marcel Tabuteau, Clarinetist Bernard Portnoy, Bassoonist Sol Schoenbach, Hornist Mason Jones; Victor; 8 sides; $4.50). A sweet, 18th-Century woodwind "bash" (jam session), spotlighting the pure purlings and tootlings of Philadelphia's high-priced soloists...
...Lanny goes to Kurt's home and brushes up on conditions in Silesia. He also visits Munich, where he hears an early oration by "Adi" Schicklgruber; Paris, where Isadora Duncan propositions him; Rome, where he gets into hot water trying to help Matteoti; London, where he promotes Stepfather Marcel's paintings. He becomes something of an art expert, has his first durable affair, goes on dialectical sprees with his Red Uncle Jesse, acquires a becoming pinkness. He captures a U. S. multimillionheiress, experiences life among the shrieking rich on Long Island's South Shore, turns up (along...
...Paris newspaper and radio attacks on the "Vichy vermin" suddenly stopped. At a dinner given by German industrialists the two chief proponents of all-out collaboration (i.e., submission), square-shouldered Jacques Doriot and round-shouldered Marcel Déat, had been told to try to smooth Paris-Vichy relations and they appointed a committee to do so. Two members of this committee promptly got jobs with the Vichy Government: Doriot's lieutenant, Paul Marion, as Secretary for Information, and one Benoist Mechin, editorial writer for the anti-Semitic Gringoire, as Assistant General Secretary to Admiral Darlan...
...past five months these third-year men have been busy evolving their version of a Utopian Yard. Under the direction of Marcel Breuer, associate professor of Architecture, the revolutionary program started last October when eight idealists in Breuer's studio were given the task of redesigning specific buildings in the College...