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Sacks & Bats. Though himself a skeptic, Diogène is finally undone by the imperatives. When he uses a variety of tricks to seduce Lourdes, the town of Saint Marc looks on with amused tolerance. After all, he is the local Don Juan. But when he refuses to acknowledge Lourdes's baby, her enraged mother, Zeline, pronounces a curse on him, and Saint Marc knows that trouble is ahead. Sure enough, a few days later, Diogène's wife comes down with a seizure, screaming, "I beg you, please get this sack off my head..." Everyone knows...
Vito Marcantonio, Manhattan's shrill-tongued voice of Communism in the House, stayed on in politics. Marc caught on as a lawyer for the Communist Party to fight the McCarran alien registration act through the federal courts. He had taken the job, said Marcantonio blandly, as a "public service...
...Robert Marc Mazo '53 of Camden, New Jersey, and Kirkland House recently won a one-year $600 full tuition scholarship for work in science from the Radio Corporation of America. Meanwhile, the Harvard Club of Long Island announced it would finance a new $650 scholarship to high school graduates entering as freshmen next year...
...Brooklyn, "on a street. . . that can only be described as drab," he survived the iron classical discipline of his first teachers, then, at 20, took off for Paris and the "encouraging" teaching of Nadia Boulanger (TIME, March 31, 1947). Other U.S. composers-Virgil Thomson, Walter Piston, Roy Harris, Marc Blitz-stein-were soon following the same Paris path...
...past half-century, School-of-Paris art has been an international product. Among those who contributed most to it were six expatriate Jews: Amedeo Modigliani, Jules Pascin, Ossip Zadkine, Jacques Lipchitz, Marc Chagall and Chaim Soutine. Philadelphia Art Collector Albert C. Barnes once bought 50-odd Soutines at a swoop, called him "a far more important artist than Van Gogh...