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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...
...French colony. She married a former French army officer, and when he wandered off to Guinea on a gold mining job, Madame Blouin went along, and became so enthusiastic about Sékou Touré that she became a close adviser to him, and a kind of Madame de Staël of his revolutionary movement. In time, she shifted her affections to Gizenga and the cause of Congo freedom. She gave it her all. In expensive Paris frocks she campaigned on a leftwing, anti-West platform to help her boy Gizenga. "I am not a Communist," she insists stoutly...