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...taught in Manhattan. His own work was at first strongly influenced by Cézanne. Then the Dada revolution and the surrealists came across the Atlantic. In what turned out, as Biographer Ethel Schwabacher shows, to be a search for an expression of his own, Gorky borrowed from Picasso, Miró and Matta. He went from figurative to abstract and then added surrealism. Sometimes he built up his paint until his canvas seemed like sculptured relief. Sometimes he kept the paint thin as film and his canvas almost devoid of color...
Arriving in Miami, a Cuban underground agent code-named "Lucas" called for more arms and bombs to step up sabotage against Fidel Castro's regime. Carlos Prio Socarrás, a onetime President of Cuba, talked of forming a government in exile. José Miró Cardona, head of the ill-starred Cuban Revolutionary Council, was still shuttling back and forth to Washington, conferring with Kennedy aides. But for all the anti-Castro shadowboxing, the ordinary Cuban exile is becoming resigned to the idea that Castro, may be around a while longer. By last week, most of the approximately...
...latest of a series of baffling thefts. In the last 19 months there have been six major art robberies on the French Riviera alone. Across the Atlantic, Pittsburgh Collector G. David Thompson's offer to pay $100,000 for the return of ten paintings by Picasso, Dufy, Miró and Léger still stands. Art robbery has proved more contagious even than hijacking planes...
...Cuban exiles were also feeling the effects of the shift. The Revolutionary Council of José Miró Cardona, which figureheaded the U.S.-managed Bay of Pigs invasion, was fragmenting in despair. U.S. Government agents disbanded rebel groups clustered around Miami, started sending exiles chafing in idleness off to jobs in distant states. The Justice Department turned an unsympathetic eye on a 100-man band of international "commandos" melodramatically titled "the Intercontinental Penetration Force.'' Led by a hulking (6 ft. 7 in.), bearded American ex-marine who calls himself Jerry Patrick, the force practices parachute jumping, calls itself...
...biggest seller of all was the Jackie Kennedy cover at inauguration time. Not far behind were the pre-election Nixon and Kennedy covers. the inaugural issue, and the detailed report on the Cuban disaster, with Exile Leader Miró Cardona on the cover...