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...thick paste of colors with sand and even ashes, constantly changes his style because "I am unstable and anxious." Using as his point of departure children's scrawls and the art of the insane, he is convinced that "art has much to do with madness." ¶ Serge Poliakoff, a gypsy who paints geometric designs and says his "ambition is to speak the truth ... A red circle is not the sun. It is a red circle." ¶ Bernard Buffet, who once used his mother's torn sheets as canvases, has had the most spectacular success, now owns a chateau...
...great-great-granddaughter. Floyd called Cowpens for reinforcements. Help arrived in the person of S. A. ("Tip") Moseley, a former mayor of Cowpens and chairman of the Cowpens Committee in Charge of Getting General Morgan's Body. With Tip Moseley was the committee's attorney, J. Manning Poliakoff...
Quick Action. Lawyer Poliakoff, a suave and brisk young man, stopped the first five citizens he met and asked each two questions: "Where is Mt. Hebron Cemetery?" "Who is General Morgan?" All knew the answer to the first question; none could answer the second. This, said Poliakoff, was proof that Winchester was not giving General Morgan his proper due. "In Spartanburg County," he said, "you can ask any school child who General Morgan is, and he'll tell you his whole story. Infancy to adulthood, we study him. Sir, he's our hero...
...London last week, after the ship had safely left the danger zone. Newscaster Vladimir Poliakoff ("Augur") offered an explanation: Washington was neatly thwarting a Nazi kidnap attempt. His story...
...Vladimir Poliakoff (Augur), White Russian newspaperman who snoops around odd corners of European chancelleries and sometimes pulls out something good, last week reported to the New York Times that British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax had sent, through an unnamed emissary, to German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop an odd but simple and direct message: "If you want war you can have war." Almost as defiant was Prime Minister Chamberlain, who delivered the most direct warning he has yet given to the Reich and boasted about Britain's newly found military power...