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...authors: Jack Lait, aging (69) editor of Hearst's New York Mirror and onetime topflight Chicago reporter, and the Mirror's 47-year-old Nightclub Columnist Lee Mortimer, who had a brief brush with fame when Frank Sinatra knocked him down, supposedly because Mortimer had called him names...
...Jack make it four tournaments in a row: the 66 only brought him a four-way tie for low first-round honors. Then, while the others slipped up toward par, Jack stayed down in birdie country. By the last day, though firemen had to put out a small brush fire on the course, Jack was white-hot. He carded another 66, smashed the tournament record with his 72-hole score of 266, eight strokes better than the total of Runner-Up Al Besselink. Pocketing the $2,000 prize for his 22-under-par romp, Burke cocked a calculating...
Gaston was trained to be a lawyer, Raymond a doctor, Marcel a librarian. But to young men out for excitement in turn-of-the-century Paris, the studios of Montmartre were irresistible, so the Duchamp boys all ended up artists. Even sister Suzanne tagged along, tried her hand at brush and canvas. Last week a Manhattan exhibit of the four Duchamps gave a nostalgic glimpse of modern art's brash young cubist days, and brought the Duchamp family up to date...
MARCEL, 64, is the most famous of the Duchamp brothers. After a dozen years as modern art's No. 1 bad boy, in 1923 he gave up such experiments as his stroboscopic Nude Descending a Staircase in favor of chess, has scarcely touched a brush to canvas since. Last week, along with witty reminders of his bumptious youth, he displayed his first artistic creation in 15 years, a tiny pencil drawing of a chessman. Said Marcel, who lives in Manhattan: "I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art-and much more. It cannot...
...glossy portraits (Presidents Harding and Coolidge, Benito Mussolini) and illustrations (the memorable World War I "Fight or Buy Bonds" posters); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Once, asked to do a series of paintings showing the evolution of the American girl, whom he had long glorified with pen and brush, Christy begged off: "Gosh! She's never evoluted . . . same old girl she always has been...