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...Dozen Don Quixotes. Except for a brief respite after the revolution of 1848, Daumier waged a running battle with the censors. When they bore down too hard, he turned from political to social satire, illustrated his favorite novel Don Quixote a dozen times, and ultimately got around to the easel-paintings-the blacksmiths and laundresses, as dignified as Rembrandt's illustrations of the Bible-on which his reputation as a 19th Century master largely rests...
Radios blared it, headlines screamed it, and the buses and trucks that carried jubilant Chileans into Santiago bore it as a legend: "The Antarctic Is Ours." Wind-bronzed President Gabriel González Videla was home from his flag-planting expedition to Graham Land (O'Higgins Land to Chileans) where he had defied the British lion (TIME, March 1). He had set off an explosion of Chilean patriotism, and made himself the most popular man in the country. In Santiago last week, 200,000 Chileans cheered him when he landed at the airport, shouted vivas as ponchoed huasos (cowboys...
Stevenson, a novice at campaigning, was completely at ease in Bloomington, where he spent his boyhood and where his family has long published the Daily Pantagraph. At a reception in the high-ceilinged Stevenson homestead on elm-lined East Washington Street, he bore up like a veteran through two dinning hours of handshaking, reminiscing with boyhood friends and chinning with local politicos (including many a curious Republican...
...Received the European Recovery Program bill from the Foreign Relations Committee. The bill bore a strange financing device. Colorado's Eugene Millikin, who will later handle the Republican knife on taxes, devised a method to give ERP all of the $5.3 billion needed for its first year of operation and also have several billions left over for tax slicing. It was a neat bookkeeping trick: $3 billion of ERP's cost will be charged against 1948's books, to be met out of the estimated $7.5 billion 1948 surplus, leaving only $2.3 billion to be charged against...
...year old Theodore Voutiritsa of Cambridge, had long been suspected by police, since the first safe deposit box that turned up in the case bore his name...