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Antibes' money-minded Mayor Jean Pastour, who despised Picasso's work but recognized its market value, had raised the admission price to the castle from five to 30 francs. Last week's visitors got their 30 francs' worth: they found 65-year-old Picasso himself pacing before his pictures, looking for all the world like an aging lifeguard...
...mood. He had locked up his Riviera labors-about 50 pieces, including gouaches and drawings-and left the key with his friend the curator, who hoped that Antibes would make the green museum room a "Picasso Hall." That was all right with Antibes' practical-minded Mayor Jean Pastour. "In my mind," said the Mayor, "Picasso's paintings are . . . monstrous things. . . .Yet the world is full of madmen who love Picasso, so if Picasso gives our museum some paintings, we will accept and exhibit. Perhaps some crazy fool would come to see them and the town would make money...
...College at the Seranton (Pennsylvania) High School, where he took part in scholastic debates and was editor of the High School "Impressions." In his Freshman year he was on the team which defeated Exeter, and last year was a member of the 1906 championship team, and won the Pastour, Medal in the final debate of the class series with 1904. This year he was a member of the winning Junior team in the debate between 1906 and 1905 for the class championship. He has held Harvard College, Wendell Phillips, and Bowditch scholarships, and last year won a Detur...
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