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...Chirico (pronounced Kirico) was last reported living in Florence. Following his visionary, "enigmatic" period, he produced a series of relatively academic paintings featuring prancing stallions, which an unsympathetic wit once dubbed "neigh plus ultra." During the '20s he quarreled bitterly with the official Paris surrealists, who formally decided that he had died spiritually...
Vesalius was the outstanding anatomy teacher of his time. While still in his 20s he held professorships in three Italian universities. Dissection was an art he had practiced from childhood. In his medical-school days in Paris, he had sometimes taken over demonstrations from his teachers. As a teacher himself he wanted improved diagrams to illustrate his written text. In search of an artist, he may have gone to Titian's workshop. Certainly some of the Titian-style drawings he commissioned were by Calcar...
...About halfway, there was a definite climax of anxiety over what we would meet. Bolzoni says it was exactly the same for him, though he never showed it. He tells me that he thought about his mother and father, northern Italians who went to the States in their early 20s, met and were married there. About his father's restaurant in Bristol, Conn., where he was born. When he was young, his parents used to speak Italian whenever they wanted to say something he and his sister were not supposed to understand...
Died. Marine Corps Captain Charles William ("Charlie") Paddock, 42, track star dubbed the onetime "world's fastest human" in the '20s, peacetime manager of California newspapers; in the crash of a Navy plane; near Sitka, Alaska. (Killed in the same crash: Marine Corps Major General William Peterkin Upshur, 61, commander of the Marine Corps Department of the Pacific...
Abby Rockefeller Milton, only daughter of John D. Rockefeller Jr., arrived in Reno to get a divorce, after 18 years, from David Meriwether Milton. A blithe young speed enthusiast known as "The Golden Girl" to society editors of the mid '20s, she had stayed out of the news since her marriage. Milton is a lawyer whose accomplishments include borrowing $1,000,000 from his father-in-law. The divorce will be the first involving one of John D. Sr.'s direct descendants...