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AMERICA AND COSMIC MAN (247 pp.)-Wyndham Lewis-Doubleday...
...thin clockwork cadence . . ." Britain's Wyndham Lewis once wrote, "the delicate surf falls with the abrupt clash of glass, section by section." Embedded in his mocking, thumb-to-nose social satires (Tarr, The Apes of God), such descriptions helped make him famous...
...Died. Wyndham Raymond Portal,* First Viscount Portal of Laverstoke, 64, Britain's Minister of Works and Planning (1942-44) and president of the '48 Olympic games held in London; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hampshire, England...
...Theodore Duret wistfully holding a lady's opera cape in some carpeted corridor. And William M. Chase had come upon the bemonocled Whistler sporting an absurd little cane and striking his dandy's pose. But most of the Edwardians represented at the museum (the Phelps Stokeses, the Wyndham sisters, Mme. Gautreau, Miss Ada Rehan, Henry Marquand) had sought out, or been sought out by, the slickest and most fashionable painter of their day to immortalize them -John Singer Sargent...
Died. Major Guy Richard Charles Wyndham, 52, wellborn, well-to-do war correspondent for the London Sunday Times; by machine-gun fire; in Jerusalem (again demonstrating that the war correspondent's risk is greater than the average soldier...