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Because of the light-the shattering clarity that had seduced so many artists-Painter Marc Chagall in 1950 left Paris to live on the Riviera. Last week Chagall, now 79, said merci to the land of azure waters with a $2,000,000 gift: 17 major oils and 50 gouaches and watercolors, representing much of his last twelve years' work, which will be housed in a government-financed Chagall museum in Nice. When it is completed in 1968, the memorial will take its place beside the Riviera's three other museums dedicated to modern masters: Picasso...
...Marc Chagall, Marc Tobey...
With André Malraux, France's Minister of Culture, adoration of art knows no bounds. He has put Marc Chagall's lovers on the ceiling of the Paris Opéra, Maillol bronzes in the Tuileries gardens, Masson's abstracts in the dome of the Comédie Française. He has washed the face of Paris from a dingy grey to honey-colored sandstone, and his art history, Voices of Silence, was a monument to a world he saw as "a museum without walls...
Bombed with Beer. Préfontaines, with annual sales of 52 million gal. worth $51 million, controls just 4% of the French market, but that is more than any competitor has. And only Préfontaines has Marc Henrion, 39, a Harvard Business School graduate, as director-general. At Harvard he distinguished himself by bombing the Baker Library with empty beer cans as he flew over it in his old Fairchild. Harvard grounded him but graduated him too ('50), and the next year he had a chance to apply his learning when André Dubonnet, of the company that...
...summer jobs at the St. Petersburg Times soon got a new slant on the months ahead. Not for them the nearby beaches; not for them such time-killing chores as toting copy, answering phones or writing the myriad obits that the retirement haven inevitably requires. On his first day, Marc Rosenbaum, a Colgate freshman-to-be, found himself on the rewrite desk. "I'm not even sure what I'm doing," he gasped as the deadline rushed up. But he did fine. And so did the others...