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...wind up his 38-year military career at May's end, winged in from London to New York's International Airport. A jaunty figure in mufti, Tony McAuliffe discounted chances of all-out nuclear war but foresaw a possibility of small "brush wars" involving tactical atomic weapons. Said he: "We'd be suckers if we attempted to fight the Russians with only conventional weapons." What about McAuliffe's fellow cadet at West Point, New York-born General (ret.) Mark W. Clark, president of South Carolina's Citadel, whose Dixieland views now include a belief that...
Died. Lyonel Feininger, 84, topnotch U.S. modernist painter; in Manhattan. New York-born Feininger went to Germany in 1887 to study music, turned to painting instead, exhibited in 1913 with the Blue Rider group (Klee, Kandinsky, Franz Marc), taught painting and graphic arts at Walter Gropius' Bauhaus from 1919 to 1933. Influenced by cubism, he illumined dark, glowing abstractions of sailboats (a famed one: Glorious Victory of the Sloop Maria), churches and city scenes with the placement of crystal-like shafts of light...
Just out of Harvard ('48), where he was managing editor of the daily Crimson, New York-born Anthony Lewis landed a writing job on the Sunday New York Times. Tony Lewis did not do very well. One day more than two years ago, Sunday Editor Lester Markel called him in, suggested that he go out and get some reporting experience. Tony Lewis went home and told his wife, "I've been fired," then started looking for a reporting...
...Force captain stationed in England has demonstrated how even an amateur producer can prosper in the West End. When British pros refused to finance 43-year-old Max Morgan, who wanted to put on an all-Negro musical revue, the New York-born captain found his angels among 65 Air Force men at the 19 U.S. bases in Britain. Fired by the $50,000 the flyers shoveled into it, Jazz Train screeched into London's Piccadilly Theater last week and had critics shouting that it was the best musical since Blackbirds...
...solidarity and protection. Silence does not exclude communication, and a world that talks from morning to night may not appreciate the gaiety of the recreation hour after a day-long silence. Barring homesickness, the postulant is likely to be happy during her first few convent months. But, as New York-born Carmelite Mother Catherine Thomas puts it, in her autobiography, My Beloved, The Story of a Carmelite Nun, "Postulants are new brides; and like other new brides, for the most part they are blissfully ignorant of the trials that lie ahead...