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Both sales and store highlighted Ward's fast comeback under John Barr, 48, who took over the company after crusty old Chairman Sewell Avery surrendered his one-man rule two years ago (TIME, May 23, 1955). As boss. Barr's first move was to recruit a new force of officers; he gave them a stock option plan as incentive, equipped them with real, independent authority and then set to work on a new-look for the company. In quick succession, Barr formed a new department to pump life into merchandising and displays at Ward's 562 retail...
Evidence of the origin of Gauguin's style was on exhibition last week in Manhattan's new Hirschl & Adler Galleries, the first time Bernard has ever had a one-man show in the U.S. With 31 paintings and some 20 watercolors and drawings of his Pont-Aven period (1886-93), it is also the biggest show he has ever had anywhere...
...German by the Germans, who are honoring his works with a ten-month-long museum tour, Hartung, at 52, is being hailed by critics as "one of the prophets of modern art" (in Paris) and ''one of the most influential painters of the postwar period" (in Germany). In the U.S., where Hartung is having his first one-man show at Manhattan's Kleemann Galleries, the Museum of Modern Art's Director of Collections Alfred Barr Jr. calls him "perhaps the best master of calligraphic abstraction." Hartung himself is more laconic. Asked by a Parisian art critic...
...Western Front is collapsing under the blows of the Normandy invasion forces, but Von Puckhammer shores up his own dwindling sector as if he were the Führer's one-man secret weapon. When he rounds up a few Maquis and has them shot beside open graves, the general touches his hat and murmurs: "May God have mercy on them, the mercy which we could not show them." "He's got nice manners," thinks Horlacher drily...
...second Eli goal, which opened the third stanza scoring at 1:36 and tied the score at 2-2, was a one-man breakaway...