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...Colmar, to work under Martin Schongauer. The trip turned into a couple of Wanderjahrce through Germany, and he did not reach Colmar until 1492. When he got there, Schongauer was dead. His restless wanderings across Europe included two trips to Venice, and were capped by a yearlong sojourn in The Netherlands, where he was a celebrity among celebrities, moving in a nimbus of fame through a circle that included Erasmus himself. Later he commemorated his meeting with Erasmus by a portrait that was drawn, according to its inscription, "from the living figure." In fact it was done from...
...completion despite the fact that Apple was beginning to come apart at the core. Asher was responsible for the fact that a year later Taylor was able to sign up with Warner Bros, and launch Sweet Baby James. Since James' return to the U.S. in December 1968, for another sojourn in a mental hospital (this time Austen Riggs in Stockbridge, Mass.), Asher, as friend and manager, has proved himself to be a sound guide, with shrewd bargaining abilities and an instinctive feel for the fast-shifting tastes of the pop-music world...
MINNESOTA: Twenty five years ago, Hubert H. Humphrey was elected Mayor of Minneapolis. He was a bright new liberal light, leader of the Democratic-Farm-Labor Party, and a anti-segregation spokesman at the 1948 Democratic convention. Since then Humphrey has been in Washington and Chicago, and neither sojourn did his career any good...
...least the first part of Palme's eight-day visit has begun to take the chill off U.S.-Swedish relations. This week, as if to maintain the equilibrium of his nation's neutrality, Palme will be off again, for an unofficial sojourn in Moscow...
...accomplished nothing else, the brouhaha over Georges Pompidou's American sojourn underscored the delicate dilemma of American Jews vis-à-vis Israel. As individuals or as a community, they certainly had every right to express their feelings about the French President's pro-Arab views. But is it sound tactics or proper behavior for any group of U.S. citizens to insult a visiting head of state? Many sober-minded Jews who are ordinarily strangers to picket lines would answer that their consciences demanded loud protest. In fact, compared with other recent demonstrations, these were small and extremely orderly...