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Died. Alfred Kubin, 82, Austrian graphic artist in the great tradition of Diirer and Holbein, whose preoccupation with death and decay took shape in grotesque, pitiful figures trapped in a maze of twisted lines, mostly illustrations for books of authors particularly fascinating to him: Edgar Allan Poe, Dostoevsky, Strindberg; in Zwickledt, Austria...
Host Barnet Nover, Denver Postman and old Washington hand, finally succeeded in moving Warren and Mazo to a corner of the room, where they talked for nearly an hour. Finally, Earl Warren put his hand on Earl Maze's shoulder and said, "Come see me sometime to talk things over," and left...
...first page of this massive Civil War novel, Hero John Bottomley is up before dawn to fight a duel with villainous Ules Monckton. But he does not reach the dueling ground until page 143. having lost his way in a maze of flashbacks intended to introduce the reader to the large, and largely predictable, cast. There is the weak younger brother who breaks his stern daddy's heart; the high-strung mother who fears a slave insurrection; the "giddy, harum-scarum" little sister; the coldly beautiful woman who spurns the hero and marries money; and inevitably, a willful, head...
...Confession (reserved to the Pope himself). Over the past 20 years, careful digging has uncovered a number of Christian tombs beneath the altar, with the strong probability that one of them was Peter's; but there was no name or sign to mark it-only a maze of graffiti, scratchings of names, initials and symbols on the ancient stones...
Thoroughly versed in the maze of Cuban politics, Ruby does most of her reporting from her desk, gets many of her leads from her radio, which blares steadily in competition with a tape recorder, a television set, and a green parrot, all in the same room. Last week, as Fidel Castro's triumphant procession passed within view of her office, she emerged for her first look at the rebel chieftain. Castro had already paid his respects to her; last November he sent a runner 600 miles with a mountain orchid for the Timeswoman in Havana. Placid and permanent...