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...beat the Frenchman up. He caught syphilis, and partly to avoid further temptation, married the daughter of the pastry cook who nursed him back to health. The disease left its mark-trembling hands and eventual paralysis-but at 45 Poussin was at last being hailed as France's Raphael...
Living Character. Shortly after Gary's novel first came out in France in 1956, Gary had a long letter from a game warden living in the Ivory Coast territory of French West Africa. Raphael Matta, a Frenchman of Italian descent, seemed Morel sprung to uncanny life-though Gary and Matta had never met or heard the other's name. Like Morel, Matta had undergone a shattering World War II experience. An exploding land mine almost took his life, and left him totally deaf...
Born. To Jose Ferrer, 48, Hollywood and Broadway actor and director, and Rosemary Clooney, 31, jukebox and screen songstress: their fifth child, third son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Raphael Francisco. Weight...
...Raphael Soifer is a blond, spectacled freshman at M.I.T. In 1958, while still a student at the high-rated Bronx High School of Science, he got interested in a paper by Professor John D. Kraus of Ohio State University. Dr. Kraus reported that a satellite speeding through the outer fringe of the atmosphere trails an ionized wake that can reflect certain kinds of radio waves. Teaming up with his friend Perry Klein, another teen-age New York ham, "Ray" Soifer wrote the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge for detailed schedules of satellite orbits. Whenever a satellite, U.S. or Russian, passed...
...point of numbers, Rubens dominates the Pinakothek, with no less than 74 examples. Van Dyck comes next with 26, and Rembrandt has ten. Such Italians as Titian, Tintoretto and Raphael are splendidly if sparsely represented. But the real heart of the museum is Dürer and the northerners he influenced...