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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years to produce the 15 paintings of the present series, which will go on view next month at Manhattan's Midtown Gallery. The five reproduced on the following pages show the range and strangeness of his imaginings. ¶The Diver has as its setting a flooded rooftop on Pittsburgh's Polish Hill, with the Pennsylvania Railroad main line in the background. Key to the composition is the girl's arm, tenderly outstretched toward the skindiver. Koerner had in mind the sort of arduous wooing found in fairy tales, where the king sets a series of tasks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: DISTRESS AND DELIGHT | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...Bang-Jensen himself, the victory proved to be costly. Shortly after the rooftop burning, Hammarskjold fired him for "insubordination." Nearing 50, despondent Povl Bang-Jensen set out in search of a new career to support his American wife and five U.S.-born children. He finally found a job with the CARE international relief organization in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Magnificent Obsession | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...children did to The Ballad of Davy Crockett in 1956 should make Walt Disney shudder. Not a vestige remained of the 17 official verses. New versions ranged from "Born on a table top in Joe's café,/ The dirtiest place in the U.S.A." to "Born on a rooftop in Battersea/ Joined the Teds when he was only three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Secret World | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Jutting out of the clutter of Hamburg's docks is a giant rooftop sign that pinpoints the location of the big, busy Schliekerwerft. The yard is named after its owner, tough Willy Schlieker, who operates a worldwide complex of 15 shipyards, steel mills and trading companies with a yearly gross of $150 million. At 45, Moneymaker Schlieker is the youngest of postwar Germany's Wirtschaftswunder-knaben (economic wonderboys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Wily Willy | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...ager killed in street-gang violence in New York City in the past three months, fueled up already blazing feuds between Bronx street gangs. Two days after the killing, police headed off a massive outbreak of violence by nabbing ten Royal Knights allies who were waiting on a Bronx rooftop to ambush an oncoming invasion of the neighborhood by revenge-seeking Valiant Crowns. In the ambush arsenal: 20-gauge shotgun, .22-cal. rifle, two hunting knives, stacks of bricks, nine Molotov cocktails-gasoline-filled bottles with rag wicks, to be ignited just before the bombs were hurled. Wait Wanted. Against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Knights v. Crowns | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

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