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...Dolls & Toy Soldiers. Alexandre was brought up on the French Riviera. Born Alexandre Raimondi, he claims descendance from a general who fought against Napoleon in the Italian campaign. Though he has carefully preserved the sabre and other military relics of his illustrious ancestor, Alexandre says: "From a very early age, I preferred dolls to toy soldiers, dolls whose hair I could work up into curls and chignons." Shortly after World War II he was discovered by the Begum Aga Khan, having already won a local reputation as "The King of the Egg Shampoo"; the Begum passed...
Like a man given a golden door knob, Viereck attempted to build a mansion to surround his toy. Unhappily, his intellectual, poetic, and dramatic resources sufficed only for a pasteboard imitation of a mansion, a flimsy substitute for a play. That line was one of only four Good Things about a wasted evening...
...meditates for a while, and then, in measured steps, proceeds to his white studio, designed by U.S. Architect (and fellow Catalonian) José Luis Sert. There, surrounded by favorite shapes and objects-a rotting rudder, a rusting anchor, a decaying sheet of metal, bits of pottery, and some toy turtles-he contemplates for about an hour. "By this time," says he, "I am filled with fury for my work, and I am ready to jump off the balcony." Instead, he paints through the morning. After lunch and a rest, he sets off at a brisk pace for a solitary walk...
...look Khrushchev squarely in the eye and effectively warn him that despite recent reverses, neither the President nor the U.S. could safe ly be pushed around. There were some who argued the necessity of the exercise: the Communists are pretty cock-a-hoop these days, sure that they can toy with the nuclear talks, conquer Laos, wreck the U.N., and maybe start something in Berlin...
...foreign countries, counts on the nascent global bowling boom to substantially increase its 1960 overseas sales of $22 million. To expand its line of recreational equipment, AMF has bought W. J. Voit Rubber Corp. (tread rubber, scuba gear), Ben Hogan Co. (golfing equipment), and Wen-Mac Corp. (engine-powered toy airplanes...