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...shouldn't care that TIME snubbed our Du Pont show at the World's Fair, but oh, how that smarts...
...PONT SHOW OF THE WEEK (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A U.S. State Department troubleshooter (Arthur Kennedy) is assigned to a dictator-ruled Latin American country. Color...
...much smaller than usual and is tucked farther forward than in most twelves. And for a jib, she will carry a huge new cross-cut genoa that is supposed to hold its shape better than old jibs. Eagle's 36-man syndicate is headed by Pierre du Pont and New York Yacht Club Commodore H. Irving Pratt and includes the recently divorced Mrs. Briggs Cunningham who donated the same silver dollar to place under Eagle's mast that rode under Columbia's when Cunningham captained it in the 1958 defense. Eagle's skipper: William...
Gauguin talked taller than he stood. Actually, he was a little (5 ft. 4 in.) bantam of a man. But he walked Pont-Aven's streets with a nautical swagger, his great jut of a nose tilted in the air, looking like an evangelist pirate captain. He spouted maxims: "A line is colour, since it can only be born from the contour of spaces," or "The ugly can be beautiful, the pretty, never." To his wife, who was supporting the five children at her family's home in Copenhagen, he sent periodic sermons defining his new position...
...film, has long been the major tourist attraction of Prague. Laterna's Munich engagement is one of its few appearances outside the Iron Curtain since the Brussels World's Fair, and Laterna Magika techniques, curiously enough, have been used in quite minor ways in both the Du Pont and Texas shows at the present New York World's Fair. This summer the Laterna Magika company itself will cross the Atlantic for the first time. A four-month tour of the U.S. will begin at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall...