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...such a heady atmosphere, Christie's now expects that Peter Paul Rubens' The Judgment of Paris, which they first appraised as a $280 copy by Lankrink (TIME, Sept. 16), will top $225,000 when it goes on the block next month. Another newly discovered Rubens, an oil sketch for his Samson and Delilah, will join it for an estimated $140,000. Henry Ford II will take profits on Christie's block in December by selling off four works by Matisse, Signac, Vuillard and Picasso for upwards...
...Engineer Charles Brindley, head of Radio Corp. of America's RSA research program. Despite the difficulties, an RCA scientist managed to use radar signature analysis as early as 1958 to describe Sputnik 2. When the Russians finally displayed a model of the satellite, it was confirmed that the sketch was remarkably accurate. It even included Sputnik's special radar reflectors-which led the U.S. to the conclusion that the Soviet tracking network included many low-power World War II radars. Refinement of RSA equipment and technique now allows analysts to make considerably more sophisticated, but highly classified, conclusions...
...Lagos, the newspaper Daily Sketch made an eloquent and pathetic plea for sanity. "Will no one save Nigeria?" it asked. "Is there no one whose love for Nigeria transcends love of tribe or personal safety, who is willing to come forward and seek others like himself to nurse this sick nation? If there be a man, let him come forward. Today, for God's sake...
Twachtman, who studied in Munich and Paris, returned to relative obscurity in the U.S., averaged only $500 a painting. To raise his family, Twachtman had to paint yards of sky on the cyclorama of the Battle of Gettysburg in Chicago, sketch for Scribner's magazine, and teach. It left a bitter taste. He told students: "You are studying art here now, and some of you will become painters, and a few of you will do distinguished work, and then the American public will turn you down for second-and third-rate French painters...
...final sculpture, Hartmann explained, would be placed before the city's Palais de Justice, or courthouse. For a year Picasso ruminated, finally painted the first sketch on plywood. Then, working with twisted cardboard, which his assistant translated into pieces of metal and assembled, Picasso developed two versions, one light and delicate, the other roughhewn. Not until May 1965 did Picasso bring the two together, announce: "This...