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The drawings, all done with a swinging and resonant network of strokes, were portraits of some of the chief figures of Russia's pre-Revolution Parnassus-Sergei Rachmaninoff, Feodor Chaliapin, Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy-all close friends of the artist. There was a startling psychological study of Lenin, done...
Kos, 49, is well known in Yugoslavia for a heroic novel (Tifo) and some short stories. Critics there praise him for his efforts to establish social satire in Yugoslavia (despite the fact that as director of the National Museum he is obliged to take the government seriously). But his grasp...
Counting Socks. Separated from its only friend in the world, Red China, by 3,000 miles, Albania lives in an isolation both defiant and pathetic. More than 70% of its 1,700,000 people scratch a living from the collectivized soil; most of Albania's farm villages and mountain...
With Fox trembling from operating losses that reached $22.5 million last year, the Wall Street directors had insisted that the studio was in need of new, hard-nosed leadership-someone like James Aubrey, who made so much money at CBS. Wrong, said Zanuck. What Fox needed was a generalissimo who...
Air Force Major Robert White piloted a black needle-nosed X-15 rocket plane to an altitude of 59.6 miles-the highest man has ever flown in a winged aircraft, and a respectable second to the hundred-mile-high orbits of U.S. and Soviet astronauts. "For the first time," said...