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...Kiel, Germany last week, a dark-haired young man strolled into the district attorney's office and said, "I'm Horst Stark-the man you've been looking...
Hopper's chief study was the eastern U.S.-particularly Manhattan, where he spends his winters, and Cape Cod, where he goes each summer. Familiar things held him most: great buildings honeycombed with lonely rooms, stark streets emptied for the night, railway embankments, movie theaters, brightly lighted lunch rooms, waiting figures at the doors of isolated houses, gas stations on darkening highways, overgrown backyards, and beach cottages squatting haunch to haunch in the chill September wind...
...Kiel, Germany last week, a dark-haired young man strolled into the district attorney's office and said, "I'm Horst Stark-the man you've been looking for." Indeed they had been. A student at Kiel University, Stark was wanted for the theft of 1,500 art works, including dozens of Rembrandts and Dürers and a Raphael. Anonymous tips had led police to Stark's collection, cached away in trunks and bundles. Most of the works had been hidden away by the Germans during the war; just where and how Stark had gotten...
...country's most promising young painters. With even more ambiguous symbolism than that which characterized his last exhibition (TIME, Feb. 21), Koerner had painted a girl hauled from the ocean while an uncurious crowd fished from the dock above. Koerner's oil was as stark as a tabloid photo, and more disturbing. Was the Girl a successful channel swimmer, or an unsuccessful suicide? The painting offered no clue...
...away from Hollywood's familiar faces, Scripter-Director-Producer Robert Rossen filmed most of his picture in Stockton, Calif, (pop. 66,000), casting townsfolk in all but the principal roles. He used a railroad brakeman as Pa Stark, the city's sheriff as the sheriff, a local preacher as the preacher. In the big crowd scene just before Willie Stark's assassination, he turned four cameras loose at once on Stockton's non-professional extras to get their unrehearsed reactions to Crawford's speech...