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...about them was Ugo Procacci, Florence's superintendent of galleries and formerly the Uffizi Gallery's chief restorer. While bundling off Florentine art treasures for safekeeping after the outset of World War II, he was struck by a five-paneled altarpiece in the Church of Santa Croce. Underneath the thick overpainting, his restorer's eye told him, might lie a masterpiece. So even in the haste of the moment he took time to carefully examine the back. There he spotted a moldy, handwritten sticker, partially eaten away by termites: "Removed from...
...surface, Britain bustles with the prosperity of bumper-to-bumper traffic and aluminum forests of television antennas; its cultural shock troops of pop art, theater and cinema, the big beat, and Carnaby Street fashions are conquering the world. But underneath, nearly every observant Briton knows that his nation is in serious trouble. One critic has warned that the scepter'd isle seems ready to "sink giggling into the sea." Author Michael Shanks (The Stagnant Society) says that "the hardheaded (and often hardhearted) millowners and steel masters of the North have bred the little flirts of Chelsea and Kensington...
...Marc Bohan. AGENT PROVOCATEUR, headlined Women's Wear Daily, which had a full day's scoop on the Dior collection. Stalking down Dior's ramps, models swaggered in mid-calf-length capes and military greatcoats that could have stepped right out of Doctor Zhivago. True, underneath, Bohan had his models in guillotine-hemmed up-and-down dresses or knee-length double-breasted suits, but the challenge to the high-rise hem was obvious. "Something had to be done about the length," said Bohan. "They couldn't get any shorter-and besides...
...life. Welch's perceptions are keen, and his imagery probes reality like a scalpel. A nurse's face "gained an unreal nutcracker severity from the curve and compression of her nose and lips. It was as if a heavy weight on her head had crumpled the features underneath." Railroad tracks, "like never-ending stilettos, seemed to pierce into the grey, veined, bulging heart of the future." From his sickbed, Denton Welch saw life with the poignant clarity of a man seeing it for the last time...
Agony in Overalls. Many German automobile owners undergo agony when their cars are serviced. "When the mechanic goes underneath," says an executive of the DEMAG heavy-machinery works, "I go with him. I must see what he is doing." Steel Magnate Alfried Krupp takes three days off each year to drive his Porsche 911 from the Ruhr to the plant in Stuttgart, where he stands by in overalls while his car is being tuned. Few Germans will lend their cars even to their closest friends...