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President Eisenhower today turned down a Swiss proposal to hold a new summit conference of major powers to "ease world tensions." The President expressed confidence in the U.N. and said that he did not intend to act outside that organization...
Braque, whose collaboration with Picasso ended when he went to war in 1914, kept in his postwar work only so much of the early cubism as helped him toward the summit of his ambition-"the painting of space." Says Braque: "A still life lends itself particularly well to this effort. You should have the feeling that the objects almost stand out from the canvas, that you can physically touch them...
...minutes of dickering, the "unity of action" pact was a thing of the past, but Socialist-Communist collaboration was not. Instead Nenni and Togliatti had worked out a "new form" of relationship -another written agreement calling for "close consultation between the Socialist and Communist Parties both at the summit and at the base...
Next day the Daily Mirror's irrepressible columnist, Cassandra, described Liberace as "this deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, scent-impregnated, chromium-plated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavored, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother-love" and declared that "he is the summit of sex-the pinnacle of Masculine, Feminine and Neuter . . ." The Sunday Pictorial ran a story headlined MY LOVELY BOY, by "Momma Liberace," and printed a picture made up half of his face, half of hers...
...Florida, and unexpectedly flamboyant; Monday, the lush, velvety valleys, red barns and wind-stroked corn fields of Wisconsin; Tuesday, the tall towers of Minneapolis, rising sharply from the prairie and gleaming in the warm sun; old, mellow St. Paul with its distinguished piles of Victorian brick and stone on Summit Avenue, where Scott Fitzgerald lived...