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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find may well boost interest in the very great Renaissance painter who had all but dropped from sight 400 years after his death. Famed in his day as one of Italy's greatest masters of mathematical perspective, Piero trademarked his work with his magnificent handling of translucent atmosphere, and his ability to use form and light to give flesh tones an almost silver sheen. It took the followers of Cézanne, with their taste for color and geometric form, to start Piero's comeback; other modernists, in rebellion against the 19th century love of the elaborate...
...directions. Jerry tries to plug the hole with his fist. Fffffttt! His feet go silly on the slimy stuff, and down he slathers. "Helpfllgrrulp!" As he opens his mouth to holler, a stream of sweet bilge hoses down his esophagus. In a matter of seconds everybody in sight is wallowing gloriously in orange muck, and the whole scene looks like nothing so much as a Bruegel landscape dipped in batter. The trouble with Three-Ring Circus is that this scene lasts only two minutes, while the rest of the picture lasts...
Barely defeated in 1950, he won easily last November. He has "no special program in mind" and no special problems in sight. Generally, South Dakotans are prosperous, have tucked away an average of $3,000 each in Government savings bonds alone. Says Joe Foss: "I didn't make any campaign promises I can't keep...
...only man in Yugoslavia to speak up for him at all-ex-Vice President Milovan Djilas-was himself in just as much trouble. The two men fought alone last week in a suspenseful but losing battle against Yugoslavia's Communist hierarchy. It was a rare sight: a deep and significant squabble deep inside a Communist family circle, but carried out in almost full view of the outside world. Charged with heresy, Djilas, the ousted party philosopher, and Dedijer, the fearless partisan comrade and biographer of Tito, had been offered the opportunity of swallowing their views and fading away without...
...story-for nothing. Last fall he scored another clear triumph by persuading Gangster Billy Hill, undisputed boss of London's vast underworld, to let him ghost Hill's life story ("I am the gangster who runs the underworld"). Shortly after, Gangster Hill vanished from the sight of London police, who want to talk to him about a $100,000 gold robbery...