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...modest booth at the fair held 29 of Picasso's proudest plates, painted with abstract and neo-classical motifs. Franchise's face-happy, sad or angry-his baby's smile, a bullfighter, a skeletal fish, were repeated often in his designs. There were also ten deep jugs and thin-necked jars designed as a sort of hollow painted sculpture. One of the liveliest was half-pot and half-owl. Picasso's pottery owed a great deal to archaic Mediterranean sculpture and ceramics, which represented beasts and gods in a similar bulging shorthand, but it also...
...equal of Mayer, Zanuck and Warner-with an income of around $380,000 a year. Last week Schary was out of a job. Since May 11, when Howard Hughes stepped in as RKO's controlling stockholder, Hollywood has been speculating over Schary's future. Leftish Schary is proudest of having masterminded such films as the lowbudget, propaganda-heavy Crossfire; conservative Hughes favors blatantly sexy, splashily costly movies like his own Outlaw. They had never met, but neither man was particularly attracted by what he knew about the other...
...life had been one long schooling in the devious ways of Arab rivals-and of great powers. Abdullah was born in Mecca 66 years ago, into one of the proudest families of Islam, the Hashimites, in the 39th generation in direct line from the Prophet Mohamed. He was the son of Hussein, Sherif of Mecca. From the age of eleven he grew up at the court of the Turkish tyrant Abdul Hamid in Constantinople, where he was, like other children of notables, a hostage for the good behavior of his father. There the boy Abdullah learned languages .(besides Arabic...
...thousand years ago, when Western civilization was bounded by the laws and legions of the Roman Empire, the proudest words a man could utter were: "I am a citizen of Rome." A century ago, when the world was girdled by the British Empire, the Englishman's voice sounded from the earth's far corners: "I am a British subject." Now, in the middle of the 20th Century, the most arresting tones of history said something else: "I am an American...
Although this latter institution-Sargent College, along with the various graduate schools, does not qualify under the eligibility rules, theis still leaves a healthy segment of local manhod to choose a team from, as one of B.U.'s proudest boasts, published in Football Facts, is that its enrollment "includes more Congregationalists than are to be found in Amherst and Dartmouth Colleges, both of them established by the Congregationalists: more Baptists than in the Baptist Colleges . . . Bates and Colby: more Episcopalians than in Trinity: more Methodists than in the Methodist colleges of Wesleyan, Connecticut, and Wesleyan, Georgia, combined: more Unitarians than...