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...Administration suggested that labor leaders should be required to retire at 70, Meany, who is 77, simply laughed. He is too secure and having too good a time as president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. to worry about such a possibility. The troubled economy has made him something of a prophet, since he was urging price and wage controls long before they were imposed. Whatever they may privately think of him, the Democrats are counting on Meany to help them win the 1972 presidential election. His opposition within the labor movement, meanwhile, has all but vanished. His old rival, Walter Reuther...
...cogent point to President Kennedy "in his amusingly ironic way" and then apologized for a gloomy prediction, Kennedy replies: "John, you can't scold us often enough, and as far as I'm concerned, you are both an Aristotle and a Jeremiah, a polymath and a prophet...
Unheralded Prophet. Klinger died in 1920, after a career of prolonged and dull success. The paintings from which he earned a handsome living were promptly forgotten, and his strange etchings, too. But with the renewed scholarly interest in 19th century German art, and in the sources of that anonymous stuff called "modernism," it was natural that Klinger should be exhumed. This job, and more, has been done by an elegantly compact show of Klinger graphics assembled by Jan von Adlmann for the Wichita Art Museum, where it opened this month before traveling to Berkeley and Harvard...
...treat Klinger simply as a prophet of Surrealism-which Von Adlmann sensibly does not do-would be to miss the peculiar value of his art. The Surrealists were able to build their Tower of Babel on the work of Freud. But as far as is known, Klinger had never heard of the Viennese doctor. Born in Leipzig in 1857, and brought up in the correct milieu of provincial German society, he MIherited no work plans for dealing with his own unconscious images. He simply laid them out, naked or veiled with classical mythology. At the same time, Klinger was aware...
Died. James F. ("Prophet") Jones, 63, flamboyant Father Divine-style evangelist who amassed a fortune while fishing for souls; in Detroit. "My faith," he said, "teaches people to live to enjoy their milk and honey and chariots -Cadillacs, Lincolns, Chryslers-here on earth instead of going to heaven." As "Dominion Ruler" of his Detroit-based Church of the Universal Triumph, Jones willingly accepted gifts from his black congregation. At his peak in the 1950s, Jones' inventory included a 54-room mansion, a gold-handled cane, a $17,000 diamond bracelet, a $12,900 white mink coat and several limousines...