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Contributing to the total sales of $4,141,600 for 136 works were record prices set for paintings by the Impressionist Edouard Manet and the post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin. Manet's 1866 portrait of a pipe-puffing man, The Smoker, brought $450,000. Gauguin's 1893 scene of a moon-goddess idol, Hma Marum, fetched $275,000 The highest price knocked down by a living artist was $78,000, for a 1949 marriage fantasy by Marc Chagall (TIME cover, July...
...House living room last week before his speech to the Young Democrats, Farmer re-called making a recent Bogalusa protest march despite numerous death threats. "As we were walking along the street, the State Police grabbed a man about twelve feet away just as he was pulling a metal pipe out of his coat. A little further along, another man was caught reaching for a revolver. Just then someone let off a fire-cracker and nearly scared us all to death...
...Lead-Pipe Bargaining. Until the last moment, there had been a reasonable doubt that the city's other papers would close down in support of the Times. All the papers of the Publishers Association shut down in 1962, but that was because the I.T.U. negotiated its contract with the association as a whole. Alone among the unions, the Guild negotiates individually with each paper. For the moment, at least, it is only fighting with the Times, and last week the Printing Pressmen's union filed suit to enjoin the other publishers from stopping their presses. But a court...
...mailers flexed their muscles by refusing to send enough men to handle deliveries at two papers. "I am shocked that the orderly processes of collective bargaining are being interfered with by these damaging actions," said Publishers Association President John J. Gaherin. "This is bargaining with a piece of lead pipe rolled up in a newspaper...
PAINTING One wonders whether he asked them to hold their pose, or jotted it down in a hasty sketch and later recalled it the tranquillity of his studio. But there they are, for all time, transfixed on a roseate, smoky day: the fur trader puffing his pipe, his half-breed son derisively peering at the artist, and the huddled bear cub chained to the bow of the dugout. The river is the Missouri; the year is 1845, and the painter, who by his art has enshrined a timeless moment by on the frontier, is George Caleb Bingham (see opposite page...