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...Paris, he directed his ever-growing Argentine affairs from an inconspicuous office on Boulevard St. Germain. When he died in Monte Carlo at 75, he left four sons to increase the family fortune. Two of them, Otto and Federico, stuck to the job. Argentine society boasts of its rock-bound exclusiveness, but the Bembergs married aristocratically. Accepted in Buenos Aires by the snooty Jockey Club and the Circulo de Armas, they blossomed ornately in prewar Paris, where their salons were famous for social glitter...
...then we left the crowd and sat on the grass, leaning against a rock, and talked about Dana, Ind., and Muncie and things...
Everybody Fights. General Sir Harold Alexander, the Allied commander in Italy, had every reason to be proud of his polyglot armies. The doughty Poles took Monte Cairo, a rock mass more than a mile high, and Piedimonte; Amaseno and Castro dei Volsci fell to the French and their black colonials; United Kingdom troops entered Aquino and swart fighters from India occupied Roccasecca. The Canadians, some of whom nonchalantly swam the Liri River, took Ceprano...
According to Plan. The first step - -the beachhead - of the "final stage" went off smoothly. At Biak, largest of the is lands in the Schouten group, it was clear dawn. Offshore, the invasion task force under Rear Admiral William M. Fechteler hove to before the rock-pointed sandy beach at the southeastern heel of the island. From cruisers and destroyers poured a 19-minute barrage...
...photogenetic first floor, which reviewed the camera's art from the days of Civil War Photographer Mathew Brady's menacing portrait of a Victorian lady (Miss Edwards in Front of Indian Rock, Lookout Mt.) to Ansel Adams' magical Moonrise, New Mexico, Edward Weston's claims to be the Ingres of modern photography, and Walker Evans' deceptively simple-seeming studies of Main Street...