Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aloof and solitary bachelor, who liked to paint, cultivate roses and ponder mathematics, he lived in a strange Paris apartment that consisted of three rooms on three floors. The legends about him spread: that he hypnotized those he was questioning by spinning a small silver spoon as he talked, that the 110-lb. German police dog at his side named Nero had once guarded Germany's Hermann Göring. One morning last December, France awoke to surprising news: without a word of explanation, Premier Charles de Gaulle had fired Wybot as chief of the D.S.T. and banished...
...bachelor and onetime commercial artist, Johns works in a neat, spacious loft over a sandwich shop in lower Manhattan, explains his own work more lucidly than the critics have. "It all began," he says, "with my painting a picture of an American flag. Using this design took care of a great deal for me because I didn't have to design it. So I went on to similar things like the targets-things the mind already knows. That gave me room to work on other levels. For instance, I've always thought of a painting as a surface...
...Daniel Catton Rich last year, the Chicago Institute has been run by Acting Director Allan McNab, with a powerful assist from strong-minded Katherine Kuh, curator of paintings and sculpture. McNab will stay on as director of administration (staff: 405), thus freeing Maxon for matters of art. A bachelor, Maxon was born in Salt Lake City, trained at Manhattan's Cooper Union Art School and the University of Michigan, took his doctorate at Harvard...
People laughed at them, and so finally, after 35 years of trying, Eilshemius quit art. A cranky, messy, bearded bachelor, he lived with a churchmouse of a brother and an old housekeeper in the family's Manhattan brownstone on East 57th Street. The last 20 years of his life were devoted almost exclusively to barren eccentricities designed to promote himself. In endless letters to the newspapers he ranted of his unjust fate. The letters were signed "Flashful Inventor," "Supreme Spirit of the Spheres," or simply "Transcendent Eagle...
...been quietly nursing plans of revolution for 24 years, had skillfully used his official position to recruit younger officers-notably, mercurial Abdul Salam Aref, who became his closest "brother in revolt" and took to proclaiming, "I am Kassem's son." In 1956, at a meeting in his bachelor house on the outskirts of Baghdad, Kassem merged his network with another military conspiracy, became supreme leader of Iraq's "free officers...