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Derain's father, a baker, was prosperous enough to want his son to have the most respectable of careers, preferably engineering. But André was already painting, and his best friend was the young ruffian Maurice Vlaminck, whom Papa Derain would not let into the house. Then one day an older painter by the name of Henri Matisse saw some of André's work, spoke so glowingly of his talents and prospects that Derain's father finally relented. Maurice and Andre rented a shack on an island in the Seine, and their careers finally began...
...solid content. In his first reader, the Russian tot is blatantly propagandized, notably in a eulogy of Lenin's love for children. He is urged to keep clean, study hard, tell the truth, feed birds in winter, help old ladies when they fall, and take care of papa when mama is off at her job flying an airplane. But he also studies the lives of ants, bees and squirrels. He is taught how to identify six mushrooms, twelve birds and the tracks of hares, foxes and wolves. Fully one-third of his reader is unadulterated literature-poems by Pushkin...
Died. Angelo Petri, 78, French-born vintner who re-established the Petri winery (started by Papa Raffaello in the San Joaquin Valley in 1886). after Prohibition ended in 1933, and helped to make it one of the biggest U.S. wine-marketing organizations before retiring as board chairman of United Vintners, Inc. five years ago; after a long illness; in San Francisco...
...Kazan perennially directs, because most of Williams' characters are merely engaged in a morbid game of tag your id. It works less well with the plays of William Inge, which Kazan occasionally directs, because most of Inge's characters have the sort of spiritual problems that the papa of psychiatry did not really understand...
...Although the massive, gingerbread homes of the opulent are still there, tourism and riotous jazz festivals have distorted the old style and spirit. Yet, among the get-away-from-it-all homes that Jackie and Jack Kennedy have used since he became President (Virginia's Glen Ora. Papa Joe Kennedy's Palm Beach mansion, and the Hyannisport complex), Newport has special meaning. It was on the green-lawned, Angus-stocked, 97-acre Hammersmith Farm, owned by her stepfather and mother, Hugh and Janet Auchincloss, that Jackie spent her youthful summers. It was in the rambling, red-roofed Auchincloss...