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...cover TV consider Paley, 77, a particularly elusive subject, but Clarke discovered the chairman of CBS to be gracious and cooperative. Their 1½-hour meeting took place in Paley's office, a "wonderfully opulent but understated room," according to the TIME visitor, with paintings by Picasso and Rouault and a chemin defer table from Paris now used as a desk and, for this occasion, a tape recorder. "I asked Paley if he minded if I used my tape recorder," says Clarke. " 'No,' he replied, 'as long as you don't mind...
...Kingkill has more on its mind than special effects. The two main characters, Schlumberger and Maelzel, lock themselves in a struggle as tense and potentially humiliating as a championship chess match. Maelzel tempts the malformed Schlumberger into his machinery by using Louise Rouault, the wife of a mechanic-assistant, as bait. Eventually, Louise disappears but Schlumberger remains. The Turk frees him from the fear of losing a match publicly and gives him the power to expose Maelzel at any time. For his part, Maelzel exploits Schlumberger's gift for his own profit and dreams of a truly automated player...
...Ugly, frightful and odious" were the words used by Solange d'Herbez de la Tour, president of the French Union of Women Architects, to describe Paris' newest and most spectacular art museum. Descendants of such modern masters as Braque and Rouault refused to permit their works to be installed there. Louise Nevelson, Robert Motherwell, James Rosenquist and some 40 other American artists, collectors and critics boycotted the place to protest against France's release of Palestinian Terrorist Abu Daoud. Other detractors simply charged that the computerized temple of glass and steel was too expensive (about $200 million...
...France, where museum security is tighter than Italy's, most of the recent thefts have been from private collections; the preferred targets are tapestries and minor (hence easily negotiable) "blue chip" Ecole de Paris pictures: Rouault, Modigliani, Vuillard, Bonnard, Cezanne and the like. Major art thefts, whether for ransom or resale, have declined in England over the past few years, thanks to the formation of Scotland Yard's highly efficient art squad in 1968. "It simply does not pay criminals to steal works of art in this country," says London Art Dealer Hugh Leggatt. "The police in Britain...
Three things can be said at once about this collection. First, it represents a decent and sincere intention. Second, it contains a smattering of respectable works of art: a set of Matisse chasubles from Vence, a cast of Rodin's Hand of God, some Rouault aquatints and so forth. Third, with such few exceptions, it is an aesthetic swamp. If some mischievous curator had been asked to as semble a study collection of rhetorical sham, displaying all the cliches of modern art at their meridian of pious triviality, he could hardly have done better...