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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France's executioner) pressed the button at more than 400 guillotinings in his 40-year career; of a cold; in Paris. As well-known to French newspaper readers as Edouard Daladier, "Papa" Deibler was latest of a 68-year-long line of Deibler-executioners. He rarely appeared in public except in his official capacity, traveled incognito in a private compartment. Few days after his death, his 80-year-old uncle, Leopold Desfourneaux, was appointed his temporary successor, to execute one Maurice Pelorge, murderer, who had refused the traditional pardon (always offered to the first victim of a new executioner...
...Picasso neither drew nor painted. There seems to be little doubt that, when he began to paint again it was in response to a political event -the war in Spain. In any case, the two works which have put him in the news since 1936 have been public, polemical jobs: his big, lacerating mural, Guernica, for the Spanish government pavilion at the Paris exposition of 193 7, and a series of hairy-nightmare etchings entitled Dreams and Lies of Franco. At the same time, Picasso's previous work has begun to emerge from the smoke of controversy into...
...wanted to know the answers to some questions about "Mr. Yehudi" (Menuhin). Critic Frankenstein was so taken with Peter's knowledgeable prattle that he appointed him the Chronicle's Critic-Down-Under. Last week Critic Buxton's last year's concert-hall impressions were made public under the heading Reasume...
...Although Catholics objected to sex education in public schools, Mr. Canudo found a Roman Catholic high school in the city giving such a course to girls...
TIME'S Index of Business Conditions, reversing the temporary downtrend shown throughout January, rose 1.6 points last week-from 97.6 to 99.2. Chief cause of the rise was an increase in public spending everywhere except in the ten biggest cities. Business loans continued to decline, reflecting industry's indisposition to go in debt for inventories...