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...John Sloan, William Glackens, George Luks, Robert Henri, Everett Shinn...
...have taught stones to draw correctly." Though he did not convert the young Paul Cezanne to impressionism, he was responsible for the perception with which Cezanne observed nature, and for his devotion to inner construction. When a pompous friend, expecting him to laugh, took him to an exhibition of Henri Rousseau, Pissarro astonished the gallery by praising the primitive warmly. It was Pissarro who aided Gauguin after he gave up the Bourse for a fulltime career in art, and it was Pissarro who taught the young Van Gogh to open his canvases...
Following thereafter will be an evening of farces by Georges Courteline, Henri Becque's "La Parisienne," and some short comedies by cheknov. Plans are already being formulated for the group's fall and winter seasons...
Path to the Shrine. Since then, a million words of argument have been presented by distinguished lawyers, including former U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, hired by the Cambodians, Britain's onetime Attorney General, Sir Frank Soskice, and Belgium's Henri Rolin, in the service of the Thais. Cambodia's case: a path leads from Cambodia directly to the shrine of Siva, the god to which the temple was dedicated; in 1930 and 1953, Cambodian officials went to the temple on pilgrimage picnics, establishing a sovereignty of sorts. Furthermore, an old French colonial map puts the temple...
...Decent Reticence. Since 1875, when a group of his farsighted neighbors bought up the small Vevey factory in which Henri Nestlé had been producing milk pap for babies, Nestlé has consistently been characterized by a rare combination of imaginative salesmanship and financial caution. With uninhibited confidence, Nestlé has made a success of peddling canned milk in dairy-rich Denmark and instant coffee in Brazil. Most of the company's earnings are poured back into expansion: its 70,000 shareholders, many of them Swiss farmers, get only a 1.2% annual dividend and equally meager information on Nestl...