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Unforgivable Error. The harsh charge called up memories of a life of outspoken advocacy and fierce controversy. A Brooklynite, whose parents brought him to the U.S. from Rumania in 1897, Sam Leibowitz went to Cornell Law School and became a dramatically successful criminal lawyer. In the 1920s and '30s, his roster of clients included some of the country's most notorious hoods-Al Capone, Kid Twist Reles, Pittsburgh Phil Strauss. He fought for the Mad Dog Killer and the Bread Knife Murderess, and of more than 100 defendants charged with first-degree murder, Sam saved...
Instead of picking one official architect-such as James Gamble Rogers, who weighted the campus down with his Girder Gothic of the late 1920s and '30s, Yale turned to a number of the most lustrous and far-out contemporary master builders: Eero Saarinen, Gordon Bunshaft, Paul Rudolph, Philip Johnson and Louis Kahn. They adhered to no single style, only to the modern mood, which freely explores how steel, glass and reinforced concrete can most beautifully be bent to shelter man. Their stunning results have made Yale more of a laboratory than a museum...
...tread of automobile tires or feet-in an uncanny anticipation of abstract expressionism. He took up wax crayons to create richly colored tropical scenes: surrealist flowers as big as hybrid corn, rosy hieroglyphs of animal life. These symbolic works, some plainly eruptions from his subconscious, show how, in the 1920s and 1930s, his work grew close to that of Marsden Hartley and Arthur Dove in a search for a mystical reunion with natural form...
Died. Gustaf Gründgens, 63, Germany's most celebrated actor, producer and director, an elegant, arrogant Düsseldorfer who rose to fame in the 1920s as Hamlet and the mocking Mephistopheles of Faust, lost most of his friends when he became Hitler's chief of state theaters, yet proved so irreplaceable that after the war he was chosen to direct the state theaters of Düsseldorf (1947-54) and Hamburg (1955-63), making them the top German stages with a repertory of classics (Schiller, Ibsen) and moderns (Brecht, Eliot); of an accidental overdose of barbiturates...
Died. Rosa Raisa, 70, Russian-born U.S. soprano who created the role of Turandot when Puccini's opera premiered at La Scala, reigned as a top American diva throughout the 1920s, when, backed by Utility King Samuel Insull and directed by Mary Garden, the Chicago Opera enjoyed international esteem; after a long illness; in Los Angeles...