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...Hollywood, when Mrs. Clara Samossoud, daughter of Mark Twain and widow of Pianist-Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch, put her father's 3,000-volume library up for sale, some rare literary footnotes came to light. In the margin of one book, scrawled in Twain's own hand, was a note on his attempted suicide in 1866: "I put the pistol to my head but wasn't man enough to pull the trigger. Many times I have been sorry I did not succeed, but I was never ashamed of having tried. Suicide is the only really sane thing...
...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...
Modern art, like any other, reflects the preoccupations of its day. For example: bombing. Picasso's big, brutal painting, Guernica, successfully symbolized destruction from the air, and last week a first-rank sculptor was meeting the same challenge in bronze. Ossip Zadkine, 60, had been commissioned to commemorate the 1940 Nazi bombing of Rotterdam. He did it in terms of a single, fearful, upward-reaching figure...
...sculptures ran the range from the realism of Auguste Rodin and Aristide Maillol to the tortured what-is-its of contemporary abstractionists. Among the standouts: Rodin's cape-shrouded, beetle-browed Balzac, Maillol's hippy, sprawling nude, The River, and Ossip Zadkine's roughhewn Statue for a Garden. Such statues were easy to look at. Old-fashioned visitors to Middelheim were not so sure about some of the others...
Ever since then WWJ has been scoring radio firsts right & left. It claims to have broadcast the first play-by-play accounts of baseball and football games, World Series game (1920), prize fight, full symphony concert (with Ossip Gabrilowitsch and the Detroit Symphony). Walter Hampden, Fanny Brice, Fred Waring, Ty Cobb, Lillian Gish and Thomas E. Dewey (singing with an Owosso church choir) made their radio debuts over...