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...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The Allied attack on Cassino in film clips and narrative. Special guests are General Mark Clark and Nazi General Fridolin von Senger, who fought it out there. Repeat...
...Hans von Marees was one of the greatest German artists of his day, but neither in his lifetime nor in the 75 years since his death has the German public got to know him well. Other artists have long admired him; but the very fame of these admirers-men like Emil Nolde, Franz Marc and Max Beckmann-tended to dim his own. Last week the Bremen Kunsthalle was showing an exquisite exhibition of 116 drawings by the artist that Die Zeit calls "the dusty giant of the 19th century," and the story was still the same. The critics raved...
...Hans von Marées began studying art in his teens, first in Berlin and later in Munich. In 1864, at the age of 27, he got a commission from a Munich count to make copies of a number of Italian Renaissance masterpieces. When this chore was done, he stayed in Italy, surrounded by a tiny coterie of friends. He apparently had no interest in fame: the few major exhibitions of his work took place after his death. The new German artists acknowledged him as a master, but his work dropped out of sight again during the Third Reich...
Curtis E. von Kann '64, leader of a folk-singing group, said yesterday that "any charge added to his group's present fee will drive away business." He indicated that most groups he knows "have all the business they can handle without any entertainment agency...
...point or so higher than '65 there is no reason to claim that '66 is substantially, if any, brighter than other classes currently at Harvard. But if they possess no transcendental intellectual skills, the freshmen certainly lack the inhibitions that featured previous Yardlings. Dean Glimp and Freshman Dean Von Stade report that the seminar-coffee hours this year, based on reading that was sent out during the summer, were lively and provocative. The Class of '64 received a similar reading list, but it is doubtful that more than a quarter of that class even read the books, and even fewer...