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When Harry Truman nominated his good friend, California Oilman Ed Pauley, to be Under Secretary of the Navy in January 1946, he got a rude shock. Senators, noting that the Navy buys great quantities of oil, were leary of Pauley's behind-the-scenes activities in the great tidelands oil controversy and let it be known that they would refuse to confirm him. After six weeks of stormy hearings, Harry Truman withdrew the nomination...
After that, Kootz's own local stable of U.S. painters could only irritate, not shock. Fernand Leger brought up the rear with one of his obsessive puzzles: three ropey girls tied in a Gordian knot. Venus de Milo was obviously as out of fashion as a pretty knee...
...than theological ones: "The old atomic theory is in physics what Pantheism is in religion-the normal, instinctive guess of the human mind, not utterly wrong, but needing correction. Christian theology, and quantum physics, are both, by comparison with the first guess, hard, complex, dry and repellent. The first shock of the object's real nature, breaking in on our spontaneous dreams of what that object ought to be, always has these characteristics. You must not expect Shrödinger to be as plausible as Democritus; he knows too much. You must not expect St. Athanasius...
Harold Ross has a highly combustible disposition, a scornful disdain of public relations, an unfailing nose for what he dislikes and a sure eye for what he wants: the easy, lounging air that the New Yorker affects. Last week, a former employee named Russell Maloney tried to reconcile the shock-haired man with his brilliantined product. Maloney worked for Ross for eleven years and resigned at last because he "felt rather middle-aged and pooped...
Died. Manuel Rodriguez, 30, "Manolete, El Monstruo" (the monster), the greatest bullfighter of his day, the idol of millions of Spaniards and Latin Americans; from traumatic shock after a cornada (horn wound); in Linares, Spain (see INTERNATIONAL...