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Working crudely, the burglars gave Matisse's Woman at the Fountain a hole in the head, tore a new twist in a cubist Picasso, Lady with a Hat, made off with four-fifths of a Miro, and, in seizing Leger's Composition with Three Sisters, left behind a patch of the girls' background. Ignorantly mistaking a paper strip of a Picasso collage for the whole work of art. they tried to rip it off and ruined a work valued at more than $100,000. They got away with six Picassos, two Legers, a Miro and a Dufy...
...performance by Helene Weigel, widow of Bertolt Brecht, in Brecht's Mother Courage. Mother Courage has just been forced to look at her dead soldier son twice without permitting herself a sign of recognition: "As the body was carried off, Weigel looked the other way and tore her mouth wide open. The shape of the gesture was that of the screaming horse in Picasso's Guernica. The sound that came out was raw and terrible beyond any description I could give of it. But, in fact, there was no sound. Nothing. The sound was total silence...
...round-faced and seemingly as placid as a Buddha-withdrew from France to his studio home on Majorca five years ago, an uneasy lethargy settled over him. He imposed "a silence on myself. A fast." Instead of painting, he sat and thought. Then, two years ago, catastrophe." Systematically he tore up scores of paintings that he had done on cardboard, obliterated nearly a hundred done on canvas-an act roughly equivalent to burning up $3,000,000. "The paintings uttered soft cries when they saw I was destroying them," sighs Miró. "But I wasn't angry...
...random. A government spokesman later reported the raid proudly. Fortnight ago in Luanda, a country coffee planter spotted two Africans he believed had been with a rebel band that burned his plantation. He led a pick-up mob of whites down Luanda's main street. The mob literally tore one man limb from limb, pitched the other screaming off a six-story roof to crash through the candy-striped umbrella of a sidewalk cafe. The police casually watched...
...attempt, delightedly gave his role as narrator full billing. "Murrow's documentary," said the London Daily Herald, "blazed fiercely with his incomparable and indispensable indignation." Wrote Neville Randall in the London Daily Sketch: "I can only say that if Murrow builds up America as skillfully as he tore it to pieces last night, the propaganda war is as good...