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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pompidou is a passionate collector of modern paintings and disconcerts his colleagues by hanging Soulages and De Staëls on the tapestried walls of his stuffy official residence. He has edited a first-rate anthology of French poetry, containing long excerpts from his favorites, Apollinaire and Baudelaire. With his blonde wife Claude, he seems most at home with such literary and show business types as André Malraux, Françoise Sagan, Bernard Buffet, Jeanne Moreau and, more recently, that long-legged U.S. newcomer, Jane Fonda. Summers, the Pompidous spend at St. Tropez with the bikini...
NICOLAS DE STAËL-Rosenberg, 20 East 79th St. Twenty-six paintings, some never shown before, by the French colorist who troweled slabs of paint onto canvas to create a glowing masonry. Through...
...separate attacks. One was a member of the Gallo gang, from which killers had been recruited for the rub-out of Albert Anastasia; the other was an ex-Gallo hoodlum who had deserted to a rival Brooklyn gang. Little wonder that many a mobster was muttering "Cosa Nostra si sta rompendo" (Our Thing is breaking...
Wave of Honey. To judge from her portraits, she was handsome rather than beautiful and, from her letters, commonsensical rather than brilliant; she certainly had none of the literary sex appeal that marked her contemporaries, Madame Récamier and Madame de Staël. She was nevertheless remarkable for her courage and dogged devotion to her husband; as a patrician and a thoroughly unemancipated woman, she never felt released either from wifely duty or wifely affection simply because her husband was a confirmed philanderer. In fact, as Biographer Maurois tells it, in a somewhat simpering, grandfatherly style, Adrienne...
Last fortnight Wood and two other Yale tennis players were driving down to Miami to start the 1961 season. Their sta tion wagon plunged off the road outside Fayetteville, N.C. The crash killed Team Captain T. Craig Joyner and injured Stewart Ludlum Jr. Last week, after relays of doctors had worked for four days, Sidney Wood III died...