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Died. Fernand Léger, 74, French "machine-age primitive" painter; of a heart attack; in Gif-sur-Yvette, France. Regarded as one of the masters of School-of-Paris art, Leger (rhymes with beige-hay), the son of a Norman farmer, went to Paris in 1898 to study painting, earned his living as a photo retoucher. In 1910 he experimented with and abandoned the cubist techniques of Braque and Picasso, was later influenced by Primitivist Rousseau, moved on to a preoccupation with quilt-like color patterns, bunchy human figures in machine-like forms. After living...
President Maurice E. Paradise, of Na tional Fabricated Products, is sure that the solar batteries can be made much more cheaply. He hopes that eventually the magic silicon can be sprayed on a sur face as a crystalline metallic varnish. Then really big batteries will be cheap. They are rugged and last practically forever. A house roofed with sun-absorbing silicon could generate all the current it needs whenever the sun is shining...
...least one steelman did not expect much of a summer slump. After looking over orders already on the books, Bethlehem's Eugene Grace said: "We are trying to pace our vacations ... so they will not interfere with production. I would be sur prised if we don't go through the third quarter at 100% of capacity." Grace an nounced that even though the Justice Department has disapproved of a plan to merge his company with Youngstown Sheet & Tube on the ground that it would restrict competition, the two companies are going ahead with their merger plans. If they...
...anything like this." Spain had not. While bullfight tickets went begging, the carriage trade last week was paying up to five times the normal price to squeeze into Madrid's musty old Teatro de la Zarzuela and see the greatest hit in Spanish theatrical history. The hit: Al Sur del Pacifico. Translation: South Pacific...
...Sur del Pacifico plays twice daily, seven days a week, with the SRO sign always out. The 50 members of the cast, most of them accustomed to doing comic opera before half-filled houses, go home gaily after work at 2 a.m. The pay for top stars: about...