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ELMER BISCHOFF-Staempfli, 47 East 77th. One of the brightest exemplars of the figurative San Francisco school, which more than a decade ago sprang full-bloom from abstract expressionism, Bischoff neatly tucks nymphs in the waves of a white-capped breakwater or barely hides them behind the curtain of a sun-filled room. Through...
Pilgrims arrived every day by the hundreds. Hotels sprang up. A hospital, Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, was built with the help of $400,000 raised by New York's Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. In the piazza outside the church where Padre Pio said Mass and heard confessions, hand-painted tiles bearing the padre's bearded face and other tasteless souvenirs were on sale...
From this tiny seed, sown a full 13 years before Hitler's accession, sprang the most perverted, rapacious and successful propaganda apparatus the world had ever known. By 1936, after just three years in power, the Nazi party owned two-thirds of all German news circulation outright and tightly controlled the rest. Not a line was printed without official approval, not an editor escaped the role of Nazi stooge. How this happened-and, more significantly, how easily it happened-is told in The Captive Press in the Third Reich (Princeton University Press; $6.50), by Oron J. Hale, 61, chairman...
...first business brains of the family. He saw the need for good black powder for the huntsmen and the frontiersmen of the young and struggling U.S., and in 1802 set up his factory on the Brandywine; later he added a woolen mill. From those modest beginnings sprang the $3.3 billion empire that today spans much of the world with 117 factories employing 93,000 workers turning out 1,200 products. It has become the greatest chemical company in the world's history, a company that has spent apparently reckless millions on apparently useless laboratory research, and seen...
General Motors Chairman Frederic Donner figured that what is good for the U.S. is good for G.M., and vice versa. Dedicating a remarkable new plant at Fremont, Calif.-a factory that spews out Buicks, Pontiacs, Oldsmobiles, Chevies and two kinds of trucks from the same assembly line-Donner jovially sprang the news that the world's biggest manufacturer has just begun its most ambitious expansion in history...