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...13th U.N. General Assembly opened in Manhattan last week, Lebanese Foreign Minister Charles Malik shook off the last-minute challenge of the Nasser-led Arab League, which put forward the Sudan's Foreign Minister as a rival "Arab" candidate, and with strong backing from the U.S. won election as Assembly President by a comfortable 45-to-31 vote...
Named by the President to the U.S. delegation for the 13th session of the United Nations General Assembly was a golden-voiced Connecticut Democrat: Negro Contralto Marian Anderson. The choice strengthened what has become a U.S. tradition of naming distinguished women as U.N. delegates. Among her predecessors: Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Ohio Republican Congresswoman Frances P. Bolton, Cinemactress Irene Dunne and Mrs. Oswald B. Lord...
...create his windows for Metz Cathedral, installed earlier this year, Octogenarian Jacques Villon had all the elements available to the glassmasters of 13th century Chartres, and more. The soft radiance of medieval glass, coming from imperfections that fractured the light, was duplicated by hand craftsmanship. The gothic spectrum was expanded by modern chemistry to include an endless range of intermediate tones. But the laborious process of cutting glass to the pattern of the cartoon, painting in details with an enamel of metallic oxides and ground glass, baking it, and finally assembling it with strips of lead is almost unchanged. Villon...
When once asked just how he happened to become the sort of chap he is, 41-year-old John Robert Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford, airily replied: "I wasn't raised to be a gentleman, you know." Of all Britain's cash-strapped peers whom death and taxes have forced to open their estates to the public, none has done so with such tradition-shattering flamboyance as the duke. On the 3,000 acres of Woburn Park, just 40 miles from London, and in the gold-and-damask rooms of Woburn Abbey, things go on these days that...
...recording the epic history behind its vast collection have long been pet projects of Art Scholar Germain Bazin, 50, chief curator of the Louvre. In his profusely illustrated The Louvre (323 pp.; Abrams; $7.50), published last week in the U.S., Curator Bazin covers 341 key paintings from the 13th to the 19th century. Next September the record will be brought up to date with the publication of his book on the impressionists. Together the volumes will be a clear case for Bazin's claim that the Louvre "contains the most complete collection of works from all the great European...