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Died. Yves Tanguy, 55, French-born pioneer surrealist painter of impeccably drawn dream landscapes (Mama, Papa Is Wounded!; Slowly Toward the North; Indefinite Divisibility); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Waterbury, Conn. One of the group of young painters who formed the original surrealist school in Paris in the 1920s, Tanguy came to the U.S. in 1939, became renowned for his stark pictures of rubble-strewn deserts and towering geometrical forms...
...train several years later, his illegitimate son Alexandre III, already a famous dramatist in his own right (Camille), waited to take him to his home. Instead, Dumas père demanded to be taken at once to the home of his friend Author-Critic Théophile Gautier. "But, Papa, it's so late," said Dumas fils. "And you've been traveling eight days." But they went, roused Gautier and gossiped till 4. Finally they headed for home on foot, and Dumas pere never stopped talking. When they arrived at 6, Dumas pere immediately demanded a lamp...
...Papa's Prize...
...hours the audience's eyes can take in as many as 30 separate sets, gaily worked in paper, while the ears are assailed by age-old Kabuki tunes in Broadway orchestrations and such Western song hits as Oh! My Papa with Japanese lyrics...
...list of best-selling pop singles for 1954 in the trade sheet Billboard. The top ten: 1) Little Things Mean a Lot (Kitty Kallen), 2) Wanted (Perry Como), 3) Hey, There (Rosemary Clooney), 4) Sh-Boom (Crew Cuts), 5) Make Love to Me (Jo Stafford), 6) Oh! My Papa (Eddie Fisher), 7) I Get So Lonely (Four Knights), 8) Three Coins in the Fountain (Four Aces), 9) Secret Love (Doris Day), 10) Hernando's Hideaway (Archie Bleyer...