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...territory for corporate game, often with the state's Governor leading the foray. Governor John McKeithen and a 17-man team of Louisiana bigwigs recently visited Pennsylvania for a fast sales pitch to 139 firms. Governor William Scranton, having enlisted 130,000 businessmen in a group to tout Pennsylvania, has ventured to such places as Detroit, Toronto and San Francisco...
...pictures, however, support the book immeasurably. Duncan's Korean War photography is outstanding, and so are the color shots, many of them not included in his two bestselling books, The Kremlin and Picasso's Picassos. Among other things, Yankee Nomad does a lot to tout photography as a good career. For one dazzling picture essay on Paris, shot in color through prisms, Duncan got $50,000 from McCalls-the highest price ever paid for a single picture story...
...riseth and setteth, giveth and taketh away. Tout lasse, tout casse, tout passe. Sic transit gloria mundi. Thus passes away the glory of the daylight...
Unfortunately, no movie camera recorded Isadora's magnificent improvisations. But as the toast of tout Paris during the Belle Epoque, Isadora was the most portrayed woman in the world. Thanks to the sketches and plaster models by such artists as Auguste Rodin, Bourdelle and André Dunoyer de Segonzac, her magnificent gestures and magnetic personality were captured, and last week Isadora was "on" again -this time in the Bourdelle Museum in Paris' Montparnasse, where over a hundred drawings, sketches and figure studies of her were on display...
...American Jewish Committee, which was anxious to reaffirm Jewish life and traditions after Hitler. But from the very first issue, Commentary avoided the insularity and defensiveness typical of many Jewish publications. In a revulsion against radical ideology, Editor Eliot Cohen sought out strong individual opinion and refused to tout any political line. In the 1950s, Commentary became a leading exponent of so-called "liberal revisionism," an attempt to make liberal thought less dogmatic, more aware of life's evils, including Communism. In a searching revisionist essay, Critic Leslie Fiedler chided fellow liberals for flocking so thoughtlessly to the defense...