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...dumpling dullness of the press is Der Spiegel (circ. 300,000), a TIMEstyle weekly newsmagazine, published by Rudolf Augstein, who at 33 is one of West German journalism's youngest and most ambitious luminaries. Last week, with characteristic disdain for the obvious, cocky Der Spiegel (The Mirror) made no mention of its tenth anniversary. Instead, Publisher Augstein celebrated by assigning Staffer Claus Jacobi to Washington, where he will open Der Spiegel's first overseas news bureau...
...less than one of the top six universities in the country. His ambition has proved contagious. "Ever since he came," says one facultyman, "the university has been in a ferment. There is a terrific amount of soul-searching going on. People are looking at themselves in Litchfield's mirror...
Redon's predilection for portraying the strange creatures of his imagination-looming one-eyed Cyclopes, curiously grinning spiders, claustrophobic images of terror half-seen in the corner of a mirror, and sad, lost fools-testify to his view that in art "everything is done through docile submission to the 'unconscious.' " Redon found a meager market for his nightmares, eked out a living illustrating books, including Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," and peddling his prints to dealers...
...Britain, where most foreigners find the humor as tepid as the beer, one of Fleet Street's most successful wits today is a waspish foreigner known as Vicky. As six-days-a-week political cartoonist for the Laborite Daily Mirror (circ. 4,649,-696), world's biggest daily, German-born Vicky (real name: Victor Weisz) has built the largest following of any British cartoonist since David Low at his wartime peak. While he has not as yet won Low's fame, most Fleet Streeters agree that Vicky is Britain's top cartoonist...
...first time in Washington, Vicky blurted: "I congratulate you." When Truman asked, "What for?" Vicky explained: "For looking more like my caricatures than I thought you did." In Vicky's gallery, Khrushchev looks like a Charles Addams rendering of a prizefighter; Lord Beaverbrook, empire-building publisher of the Mirror's opposition Daily Express, is a big-mouthed dwarf in crusader's armor; Churchill is a cigar-waving Dickensian comic...