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Last week the chignon, first popular in France in the 18305,* was staging a triumphant comeback in Manhattan. On its cover, LIFE had run a glamorous photograph of TV Star Faye Emerson with chignon. The fashion magazines were embracing the false buns, braids and curls with the ecstatic gushes and gurgles which seasonably propel new fashion twists across the nation. And milliners were joyfully proving that a whole new set of hats would be necessary. A really modish woman was expected to carry extra chignons with her (cost: $7.50 to $150 each) and to be ready to run the gamut...
During World War II his life went to pieces, too. The Nazis overran the French village where he had taken refuge, and Soutine was ordered to paint, from a photograph, a picture of an occupying officer's son. He turned out a painstaking miniature. In 1943 his ulcers killed...
...They did the next best thing; they tried to make the voters look somewhere else. Squads of paste and bucket men were sent rushing out to some 500 billboards which carried pictures of various lesser Democratic candidates. Over these expendable faces the paste and bucket brigade slapped a mammoth photograph of Harry Truman holding aloft the hand of Scott Lucas. The legend on the poster: "For World Peace and Continued Prosperity-Vote Democratic...
...blindfolded him and led him into a deep pine forest. There the mask was taken off. "The moon was shining bright," reported Nagaoka, "and sitting on a huge rock three feet before me was the man I had come to interview." Not to be fooled, Nagaoka pulled out a photograph of Ito and compared it with the man's face. "Except for the grizzled tired face, the sharp gleaming eyes and the shabby suit," wrote Nagaoka somewhat ambiguously, "the man was undoubtedly Ritsu Ito." But Ito told him precious little in the three-minute interview that followed...
Although the picture, of two high-wheeled Tarascon Coaches, has been catalogued as an authentic Van Gogh and was mentioned by the artist in a letter to his brother, few art lovers have ever had a chance to see even so much as a photograph of it. Bought by an Italian sculptor who gave it to a friend from Montevideo, it had been kept most of the time since 1906 in a family vault in Uruguay...