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...After a stint in the U.S. Army Air Corps, Brice settled down in earnest to his own painting. He was fascinated by Cezanne, by "the animal aspect of form in Courbet," by De Chirico, Gris, Braque and Picasso. But perhaps the most dominant influence was the rocks, hills and floral imagery of the place where he lived-Mulholland Drive, on the crest of the range that stands between the San Fernando Valley and the Los Angeles Basin...
...naval officer. Twice he applied for an appointment to Annapolis, twice flunked the math examination. As a child he had always sketched and drawn; he decided to make art his career. He studied at Pratt Institute, the Art Students League, the National Academy of Design. After a stint as a Navy radio operator during World War I, he lived briefly in Paris. The art world was popping with new group movements in those days, but Dickinson chose a path...
...Governor Nelson Rockefeller). However, other things being equal, the balance of G.O.P. power in New Jersey is held not by nationally prominent Republicans but by county and district professionals. They have little love for Mitchell, claiming that he gave them no patronage during his seven-year Cabinet stint; and their candidate is Bergen County's Walter H. Jones, majority leader of the state senate and legal counsel for the Bergen County Sewer Authority, an agency that was set up by legislation he had sponsored...
...little-known, untested Marc Bohan, 34. The Parisian-born son of a modiste, Bohan broke into haute couture in 1945 as an assistant designer at Patou, left Patou in 1958 to work under Dior's Boy Wonder Chief Designer Yves St. Laurent. When St. Laurent, after an unhappy stint in the French army, "retired" from Dior two months ago because of "ill health," Bohan, one of the few married male couturiers in Paris, took over. Few in Paris expected much from his debut, and St. Laurent fans were openly hostile. Admitted the New York Herald Tribune's Eugenia...
...language major at Vassar ('42), Anne Chamberlin speaks French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, plus a smidgen of Arabic retained from a World War II stint with the U.S. Office of War Information in Cairo. She worked seven years for the LIFE Paris bureau before joining TIME in 1958. Since then, her assignments have included covering facets of the U.S. tours of Frol Kozlov, Nikita Khrushchev, Sekou Toure and Charles de Gaulle...