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Elderly ladies in lace jabots and stiffly polite gentlemen in somewhat frayed double-breasted black suits filled five small rooms in Munich's Municipal Gallery. They were members of Munich's large Russian colony, and they had come to see their own past reflected in an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Leonid Pasternak, father of the late Russian poet-novelist, Boris...
...drawings in the show demonstrated Pasternak's talent for capturing a fleeting moment of gentleness and humanity-a talent that made many an aging visitor stop, catch his breath and murmur: "Ah, that is the way I knew him too." Nosed Out by a Girl. The show in Munich was brought together this month to honor the centennial of Pasternak's birth in Odessa in 1862. His ambitious parents wanted him to be a doctor, scratched together enough to send him to medical school in Moscow. But Pasternak had no stomach for dissection, and, after a brief attempt...
...years before World War I, Pasternak developed into one of the most representative of Russian artists, painting in the typical Russian palette, which tends to emphasize a sort of oriental drug coloring of dusty blues and darkish reds. The 26 oil, tempera and watercolor paintings in the Munich show demonstrate that, though influenced by the early impressionists, his style could scarcely be called modern. He scorned his fellow Russian, Kandinsky, the first major abstractionist. In 1914, at the beginning of World War I, Pasternak drew a war poster showing a wounded soldier, which became immensely popular even though the Czar...
...with $3,000 in savings, Jahn leased a run-down Munich tavern, dressed it up with Vienna woods decor and a resoundingly fowl menu. He figured that hearty-eating Germans-who considered barbecued chicken quite a delicacy and were willing to pay $3 to $4 for a whole one at a festival like Munich's frothy Oktoberfest-would buy it every day if it were cheaper. To keep his own costs down, Jahn bicycled to the Munich poultry market every morning, haggled for bargains, pedaled back to the restaurant with a load of chicken. His specialty: half a roast...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A report on the 1938 Munich pact with Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, who, as First Secretary of the British embassy in Berlin during the period, was an eyewitness to that particular prelude...