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Died. Alfred Stieglitz, 82, world-famed photographer, founder of the "photo-secession" movement that emphasized realism and sought to make photography an art, husband of Artist Georgia O'Keeffe, the obscure Southern art teacher whom he sponsored; in Manhattan. Stieglitz introduced to the U.S. the works of Rodin, Cezanne, Matisse, Rousseau, jolted the orthodox art world by hanging paintings and photographs side by side in his Manhattan gallery...
...America of 1946 was discovered by the judges at the A.A.U.'s national weight-lifting tournament to be an ex-sailor named Alan Stephan. He came from Cicero, Ill. and looked like a collaboration between Rome's Michelangelo, Paris' Rodin and Manhattan's Bernarr MacFadden...
Bearded, blue-eyed Aristide Maillol (pronounced Ma-yoll) had reached the great age of 82. For a generation and more he had held an artistic eminence taken over from his friend and early supporter, the late, great Auguste Rodin. Maillol's serene, monumentally detached sculpture was the antithesis of Rodin's flowing, literary, romantic work. Greece was Maillol's spiritual home-"Is this not Greek?" he once exclaimed of his studio, strewn with broken casts, plaster limbs, stony shards. But Maillol was no antiquarian copyist; the resemblance of his work to the Greek rested in his feeling...
...dentists for more. In leisure moments, the old man listened to music. Few modern artists have evoked such critical acclaim. Wrote Britain's Augustus John: "We can never tire of a style so pure . . . have enough of a vision so consummate. ..." Highest praise of all came from Auguste Rodin, who said of Maillol's little Leda: "In all modern sculpture I do not know of a piece which is as absolutely beautiful, as absolutely pure, as absolutely a masterpiece. . . . What an artist...
...Among industrialists arrested or marked for arrest: René Duchemin (French Employers Federation), JosephTrotard (Francolor, an I. G. Farben stooge). François Lehideux (auto magnate, ex-Vichy Production Minister), Hypolite Worms (banker). Others: René Fonck (World War I ace), Georges Grappe (Rodin Museum Curator), Albert Blaser (Director of Maxim's), Jean-Hérold Paquis (radio commentator), Bernard Faÿ (historian). Most of the Directors of the Bank of France were suspended...