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At 67, wispy (5 ft. 4 in., 129 Ibs.) Konosuke Matsushita has the self-effacing look of an elderly, underpaid schoolteacher. In fact, he is a daring manufacturing and merchandising genius who, starting out at nine as an errand boy, has built Japan's biggest appliance business from nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Abroad: Following Henry Ford | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

Midsummer Night's Dream proved to be first-rate spectacle and only intermittently good dance. The sets, by Designer David Hays, were superb-particularly his stylized forest of plate-sized green leaves, spread in a gigantic canopy across the stage-and the costumes by Karinska were as opulent as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Grownup Nutcracker | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

Trying desperately to be Shavian, Romulus in the end rewards the playgoer with a wispy heap of intellectual shavings.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Decline & Fall | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

As the Brooklyn exhibition shows, U.S. artists could be both superb and silly. In 1874, Henry Gray did a classical female figure swathed in great swirls of red, white and blue bunting, which he called Birth of the Flag. Only three years later, William Morris Hunt turned out his Bathers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Shy About the Nude | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

Crisscross & Patchwork. "For me," she says, "the art of painting is an adventure. When I paint a landscape or a seascape. I'm not very sure it's a landscape or a seascape. It's a thought form rather than a realistic form." This vagueness makes a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painter of Space | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

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