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...dishonest manipulator he later became. Yet he was in the grip of a grandiose passion-to make and sell every match in the world. He had always thought of himself as a superman, and in 1922 he had a superidea. He would personally shore up the tottering, post-World War I governments of Europe with loans, in return for match monopolies...
...France's Henri Cartier-Bresson founded he picture agency Magnum Photos Inc. Yet Shim, who replaced Capa as president of Magnum, was no combat specialist; lis most memorable pictures, collected in the UNESCO book Europe's Children, were compassionate shots of orphans in the rubble of post-World...
Died. Walter Gieseking, 60, bald, hulking amateur butterfly collector and strict vegetarian who ranked with the world's best pianists; after surgery for pancreatitis; in London. He became known to post-World War I audiences for his subtlety, grace and color, rather than for flashing technique, rose to greatness as an interpreter of Debussy and Ravel, played gladly for German audiences during the Nazi reign, was greeted by jeering pickets on his first postwar tour of the U.S., returned to Germany without playing, later toured in the U.S. successfully...
...general, the single service would provide more efficient administration, and would preserve a healthy spirit of competition between ground, sea and air forces. But the single line of command in the long run would militate strongly against the searing, debilitating interservice conflicts that have marked the post-World...
...front, switching off and driving constantly. Despite the graduation of the station wagon, the tours will continue next year in the Council's own car, the recent gift of Frederick F. Greenman '14, chairman of the Council's Alumni Advisory Committee and leader of a campaign to improve post-World War II debating at the College...