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Collectors struggled through New York City's worst blizzard to buy out the show on the first day, in the next two days came back to buy every painting Philipp could dredge out of his studio...
Successful Blizzard. Over the years, Stix has started more than 100 artists, including Adolph Gottleib, Ben-Zion, Ad Reinhardt, James Lechay and Richard Pousette-Dart, on their ways to regular dealers. One day in 1947, a one-time clown turned waiter, Walter Philipp, showed up with armfuls of clown paintings. Stix decided to give him a try, found himself with a hit on his hands...
...What truth? Essentially the same thing as "the child's desire to know . the meaning of birth and what has brought it about." In Freud's early childhood there must have been a man who knew the secrets. "Well, there was his half brother Philipp [20 years his senior] whom he suspected of being his mother's mate . . ." Jones guesses that this half brother may have given young Sigmund some joking version of the facts of life that may have hurt the child. This relatively trivial explanation of what Jones justly calls a noble striving is typical...
...when she played marches for her kindergarten class in São Paulo. By the time she was 14, and already well rounded in arts and languages, the Brazilian government had recognized her as a blazing prodigy, sent her to Paris, where she studied with the great Pedagogue Isidor Philipp. Back home in Brazil, her life was filled with many things besides her music: she married happily, and had a son and daughter; she took up the cause of woman's suffrage, helped out promising young musicians. She would have done more ("I would have liked to study singing...
...Philipp G. Frank, lecturer on Physics and Mathematics, was moderator...