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...author of this diagnosis is Architect Jose Luis Sert (nephew of famed Spanish muralist Jose Maria Sert), who speaks the view of the International Congresses for Modern Architecture (C.I.A.M.*). To their title question, Can Our Cities Survive? (Harvard University Press; $5), Mr. Sert and his group answer: Not unless they are replanned; considering the shape modern cities are in, the only moot point is whether they will die lingeringly of internal maladies or violently by bombing...
...Sert, aging Spanish muralist, got $357,893 in the settlement of his late wife's estate-$209,000 of it from Barbara Hutton by way of the late Prince Alexis Mdivani. At Mdivani's death in 1935, trusts established for him the year before by Wife Barbara Hutton went to Roussadara Sert, Mdivani's sister...
Also in Perpignan popped up Jose Maria Sert, Spain's best known modern mural painter. As Generalissimo Francisco Franco's art representative, he wanted to check over the paintings which may soon -under the Loyalists' own terms-become Rebel Spain's property. Señor Sert declared himself satisfied that the paintings had been taken good care of, that they were all intact. On their nation's art Rebel and Loyalist had agreed...
Fitted out with freshly painted oar and bright red cushions, a gondola owned by the late Prince Alexis Mdivani was auctioned off in Venice. Price: $80. Purchaser: the Prince's sister, Señora José Maria Sert, who overbid a gondolier who wanted to use it as a taxi. Mdivani's onetime wife, Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow, was loafing at nearby Lido...
...Barbara Hutton (Countess Haugwitz); in an automobile accident; near Albona, Spain. Seriously injured in the accident was Baroness Maud Thyssen, 28, reported estranged from her husband Baron Heinrich Thyssen. Prince Alexis was rushing Bareness Thyssen from the home of his sister Roussadara, wife of Painter José Maria Sert, to catch a train. Found by newshawks in Germany and informed of her onetime husband's death, Countess Haugwitz said: "I am terribly, terribly sorry. I am not surprised. I always felt something like this would happen. He drove like...