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Born in Rochester in 1912, "Dick" Harari had "a routine academic training" there and later a modern schooling under Fernand Léger and Marcel Gromaire in Paris. Back in the U.S. he did both realistic landscapes and abstract murals for the WPA, exhibited fool-the-eye still lifes at the Museum of Modern Art and sold an abstraction to the Whitney Museum before he discovered his flair for commercial work...
...nonsense from some recent French broadcasts (generally, the French desk is one of the Voice's best) which tried to show that Americans are really very cultured. The French Voice recently remarked in dead earnest, upon the publication in the U.S. of a new book on Marcel Proust: "In the subway and on buses, you constantly meet workers and employees, men and women, on their way to and from work, devouring The Guermantes Way and The Past Recaptured...
...spent hours in an NBC radio engineer's booth, watching the great man conduct orchestra rehearsals. Toscanini moved too fast to catch in an orthodox sketch, so Fredenthal made multiple-image sketches that recorded a number of recurrent gestures simultaneously. The resulting watercolor bore some relation to Marcel Duchamp's famed Nude Descending a Staircase and some to Gjon Mili's stroboscopic photographs. It had more warmth than either...
...cubists, particularly his friend Marcel Duchamp, had taught him to shatter shapes. He cracked the sky as well, painted Pennsylvania factories and Provincetown houses impaled, piecemeal, on diagonal slivers of blue, white and grey light...
Said Designer Marcel Rochas before the spring fashion openings in Paris: "I feel at zero hour, ready for a fresh departure." That was what Paris needed if it was to regain its place as fashion leader of the world. This week, glimpsing the first pictures of the spring fashions, U.S. women could decide for themselves just how fresh a departure Paris had made...