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...Poet-Hero. In 1895 a frail, romantic poet renewed the call to freedom. He was José Martí, who had spent six months in ball and chain for such lines...
...their ostracism from the Beaux-Arts' controlled annual Salon exhibition (the art mart of its day), the impressionists were men of their age. "Their poverty irked them especially," Bazin points out, "because it prevented their living that normal life, that stable existence, to which they aspired. It was quite different with Gauguin and Van Gogh. It was these two lunatics who started the rupture between the artist and society. To the 20th century they were the models for geniuses beyond the law, possessed by superhuman power, which . . . laid them...
...Pabst Brewing Co. has sponsored so many TV boxing matches that its name has practically become synonymous with fighting. Last week Pabst reluctantly sponsored one more fight-the first proxy fight in its 94-year history. The ring was a igth-floor hall in Chicago's Merchandise Mart. In one corner was short, pudgy Pabst President and Chairman Harris Perlstein, wearing grey suit, tan shoes and grey tie. In the other, the challengers: Robert and David Pabst, the grandsons of the Pabst founder, Fred Pabst, and Otto and Carl Spaeth, son and grandson respectively of the founder of Premier...
Last week Tancredo Martínez Garcia, 41, exiled leader of an anti-Trujillo party, stepped off the elevator on the third floor of a downtown Mexico City office building. From the staircase a voice called "Martínez Garcia." Martnez turned and caught a bullet full in the face. The gunman, thought to be a professional Cuban gun slinger, grabbed Martnez' briefcase, then scuttled from the building undetected. Only in one detail did the shooting vary from the pattern: the bullet ripped through Martnez' cheek and neck, missing a vital spot...
...Chicago's Fifth Annual Merchandise Mart Floor-Covering Show hired a daring rigger to dress as a sultan, hover over the city on a linoleum "flying carpet" suspended from a helicopter. When fog and rain cut visibility, the sultan had to be dangled instead on a boom from the Mart's 353 ft. roof...