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NATO's fact-finders, working under the direction of Smith College Historian Massimo Salvador, got their figures by culling and comparing a mass of sources, including Russian newspapers. Two years ago, for instance, Russia created a stir by announcing that all Japanese and German P.W.s had been sent home, except for "a few thousand" awaiting trial for war crimes. At that time, Tass put the number of Germans repatriated at just over 1,000,000. Five years earlier, the Russians had admitted taking more than 3,000,000 German prisoners. That left close to 2,000,000 still captive...
Almost immediately, artists began drafting manifestoes denouncing the show as reactionary. Half the invited big names, including Painters Giorgio Morandi, Massimo Campigli, Renzo Vespignani and Sculptor Marino Marini, flatly refused to exhibit, and 50 of them dispatched a violently worded protest. Their big objection: the Quadriennale, traditionally a show of contemporary art, was devoting entirely too much space to the works of the dead. Countered exhibit officials: "After so much modern art, the visitor needs a hall or two in which to rest. To reproach us for this is like reproaching an exhibition for having...
...hand, are supplying compositions to dealers in Florence and the U.S. Blow reports especially encouraging sales in Texas: "People from Texas are crazy about designs of pistols and playing cards." With his current exhibit almost sold out, Blow has already commissioned designs from Italian Painters Giorgio de Chirico and Massimo Campigli, is hoping to interest Picasso, Braque and Miro. "Intarsia may be a minor art," says bluff Dick Blow, "but hell, it's better to turn out a good piece of minor art than a bad piece of major...
...Spadaro), Fascism at first is something to suffer in silence and loathe from a distance. Then it closes in until it engulfs him: it forces him to join the party or lose his job; it turns his wife and daughter into prattling Mussolini worshipers; it sends his oldest son (Massimo Girotti) to fight in Ethiopia, Spain, Albania and Russia and claims his two younger sons for the Battle of Sicily...
Most of the artists threw Verzocchi's bricks into an obscure corner, but some, e.g., Massimo Campigli in his subtly lyrical The Architrave, managed to get a whole stack of them into their compositions. Antonio Donghi, whose meticulously realistic painting of a peasant woman rowing a boatload of faggots was one of the most popular in the show, had floated his brick miraculously on water...