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...themselves in hand mirrors, and are met by bourgeois gentlemen in dark suits and bowlers. Sometimes, as in The Encounter, the businessman has Delvaux's own face. Though Delvaux has turned out countless variations of somnambulists in empty piazzas, only a few of his works -like the enormous Spitzner Museum, 1943-echo in the mind for long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Psychic Roots of the Surreal | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

...farm-boy tinkerer a vanishing American breed? Jerome George ("Jerry") Spitzner, 17, lives on his father's 160-acre farm, 4 miles outside of St. James, Minn. (pop. 5,005). Last week, in a field of 29,000 bright high school seniors from every state in the Union, Jerry walked off with the top $7,500 award in the annual Westinghouse Science Talent Search. His winning project: an ion accelerator made of such handy items as a Christmas-tree ornament and a float from a pig watering trough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Up from the Farm | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

Jerry's father, who quit school after the eighth grade, is solidly behind his son's dreams. On the record, Jerry Spitzner does seem highly educable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Up from the Farm | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

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