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...there were no drugs and no facilities ... A physician's duties were just to find out whether a man was able to work." On a diet consisting largely of millet-seed soup and bread adulterated with sawdust, many prisoners died of scurvy and pellagra. Sturdy men in their 20s would sicken within a few months, lose their teeth and break out in unhealing sores. "The only thing I could do," said Dr. Devenis, "[was to try to extract vitamin C from] pine needles and pine cones. So I used to cook them in a big kettle...
Died. Francis Picabia, 75, wealthy, erratic French-born Cuban painter; of arteriosclerosis; in Paris. A bored, respectable success at 35, Picabia joined the madcap Dadaist revolt against tradition during the 20s, in 1950 enraged Paris critics with a deadpan display of canvases, each enlivened only by a colored dot placed just off center...
...think the FBI now in a position to become the police arm of a McCarthy dictatorship. I think Mr. Hoover is quite capable of operating in this fashion. Despite his denials, Mr. Hoover has been actively engaged in politics since he became director of the FBI in the '20s. He is a power-loving...
...heavier on other composers during the '20s. When Cowell was studying in Germany, both Bartok and Berg asked permission to use tone clusters in their own music. Cowell happily told them to go ahead-"The more the better." In the U.S., his Hymns and Fuguing Tunes, with their solemn and lilting melodies, hollow-sounding harmonies and simple, wide-spaced polyphony, became part of the foundation of a new "American school...
...study of art has been only one of many vocations for Malraux himself. In his 20s he explored the archeological ruins of Indo-China and from 1925 to 1927 took part in the Chinese Revolution. In his 30s he wrote two famed novels, Man's Fate and Man's Hope; later he flew for the Loyalists in Spain. In World War II he was a leader of the Maquis, since then has acted as adviser to General de Gaulle. Today, at 52, Malraux is working on a new novel...