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...Year's Day the man of whom Gertrude Stein wrote these words, Alfred Stieglitz, considered by some experts the greatest living photographer, was 78. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art had on display its latest acquisition of Stieglitz' work, ten photographs chosen by Stieglitz himself: three taken in Europe during the '80s, the others in America between...
...Great Escapist. When the story of General Giraud's escape from Konig-stein prison was told last spring it was so fabulously like an Alfred Hitchcock cinema that most observers were disbelieving. It was said that the weighty, 63-year-old warrior, having assembled a civilian suit from gift boxes, had let himself down some 60 ft. of Giraud-made rope. Posing as a Swiss traveling salesman, he had serpentined through Germany for eleven days, finally crossed into Switzerland. Unpublished reports at the time said that his escape and his anti-Nazi fervor were known to the British...
Born in Moscow in 1898 of wealthy, aristocratic parents, Painter Tchelitchew fled from the Russian Revolution in 1918. In Berlin Tchelitchew was encouraged by renowned Ballet Master Sergei Diaghilev, is now considered "one of the few great stage designers of his period." But Gertrude Stein discovered Tchelitchew as a painter. Explained Miss Stein, after seeing his Basket of Strawberries: "This is why there is no flower this is why there is no flower in color this is why there...
Outstanding figures were Chile's President, Juan Antonio Ríos; Foreign Minister Barros Jarpa; Chilean Public Health Minister Dr. Miguel Etchebarne (Congress president); Osvald Stein of the International Labor Office in Montreal; and Guest Nelson Rockefeller of the U.S. They convened as the first Inter-American Conference on Social Security...
With my line, stein, and wine I will dine...