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...offer this Mass to you as a personal gift," said San Juan's Archbishop Luis Aponte Martinez. "What else could I or the church offer you that could be of any value?" In response, two threads of tears appeared on the cheeks of Cellist Pablo Casals, celebrating his 90th birthday. After the service, the maestro returned with his 30-year-old wife Marta and a small group of friends to his seaside villa, where he opened hundreds of gifts and cables from all over the world. Casals' birthday festival in San Juan lasted two days, ending with...
...night last week, Colonel Ileto got a tip from a government informer that the elusive Oscar was hiding near by. Hastily the colonel sent seven army and constabulary platoons in searchlight-carrying, armored personnel carriers to a house near the village of San Pablo, 40 miles north cf Manila. Realizing that they were outgunned, the Huks inside agreed to surrender. But while 13 men, women and children filed out the front door, four rebels tried to make a break for it across the back porch roof. Aided by the glare of the searchlights, the troopers picked off the first three...
Paeans to Pablo...
...amuses himself by taking masterpieces of the past, pulling them apart and reassembling them in his own style. Having invented or conquered style after style, he continues attacking the canvas with bull-like strength as if he were ready to invent yet another. He is, of course, Pablo Picasso, and last week in Paris he received homage by way of a vast retrospective larger than any other artist has had while alive. And, of course, he wasn't there...
...logistics of assembling the nearly 1,000 works valued at $60 million were staggering. Jean Leymarie, Geneva University art professor and longtime Picasso friend, who undertook the task of amassing the works, insisted that the exhibition include Picasso's full range, from a finished academic portrait done when Pablo was 14 to landscapes as recent as last year. The Soviets lent nine cubist paintings, making it the first time-and probably the last-that the complete series of great cubist portraits could be seen in sequence. From the U.S. came 46 key paintings from private collections and museums, including...