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...salute boomed from the British aircraft carrier Bulwark, and First Lord of the Admiralty Viscount Cilcennin stepped forward briskly to shake hands. "This is an historic moment," said Bulganin, shuffling past the guard of honor. On the train to London there was Château Lafite-Rothschild '50 for lunch, but when Khrushchev asked whether he could take the bottle along with him, the waiter said: "I'm sorry, I can't do that, sir. Regulations." At London's cavernous Victoria terminal Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden, towering head and shoulders above B. & K., greeted them...
...treasures it has, let alone acquire more. In its first official report since the war, the National Gallery complained that inadequate maintenance is endangering some of the world's most marvelous paintings. Among them: Michelangelo's Entombment, Piero della Francesca's Nativity, Holbein's Ambassadors, Rubens' Château de Steen. In one room, the only humidity control is a teapot, kept boiling around the clock. As many as 60 paintings have been lined up at one time for the repair of cracking, flaking or rotting canvas. Said a gallery official sadly: "The damage goes into the millions...
Died. Germaine Corblet Coty, 69, wife of France's President René Coty; of a heart attack; at the President's summer residence, the Château de Rambouillet near Paris...
Lesser awards went to Italy's Renato Birolli, 49, for his dramatic composition of lightning in a vineyard; to Chilean-born Painter Matta, 43, for a 10-ft.-long canvas filled with bedazzling pyrotechnics that looked like a combined château and gasworks in hell the night the fireworks factory blew up; to Rome's Toti Scialoja, 41, for a low-keyed study in a lyrical cubist style. Not until the honorable mentions did the first U.S. painters appear: little-known Pittsburgh Artist Marjorie Eklind, 31, and this year's leading U.S. Prizewinner John Hultberg...
Colonel Schwable got booted around for collapsing under Asiatic torture, but the captain gets the general's highball for knowing about Château Yquem...