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From Maitland's description of the painting, Feigen realized that it might be a first-rate Klee. He decided to see if he could find it. sent a letter to ten top international art magazines telling about the theft and reporting that the Maitlands wanted the painting back. Professor Leopold Reidemeister, general director of West Berlin's municipal museums, learned the sad news by reading Feigen's appeal in London's Burlington Magazine...
...mysterious theft was discovered Tuesday, when students in Mallinckrodt labs tried to continue work begun last week. Although an uncertain number of 100 ml flasks of benzophenone had disappeared (students guessed 200, and one section man estimated 40), the beakers they had been resting in were all neatly in place. "We thought maybe someone had taken them in out of the rain," said one student...
...Nerves. The S.A.O.'s most conspicuous failure has been its attempt to transport the movement to France itself. It has made a lot of noise in Paris and the provinces with the explosion of 400 plastic bombs at carefully selected targets* and with the theft of guns and munitions from U.S. and French army camps?always well publicized by the press. But the attempts to blackmail funds from the rich and prominent have often backfired: Brigitte Bardot made the S.A.O. seem ridiculous by publishing their threatening letter. In France, the S.A.O. has an estimated 7,000 active members, among them...
...S.A.O. last week reached out be yond the borders of Algeria. At Alenc,on in Normandy, an S.A.O. gunman murdered a Communist Party organizer who had formerly lived in Algiers; in Paris a carload of S.A.O. terrorists shot up Communist headquarters and wounded a night watchman. An S.A.O. theft of 297 Ibs. of plastic explosive from a U.S. Army base was followed by the seizure of small arms and munitions at the French army's Camp Satory, near Paris...
...passion. Brecht aimed his irony at the rich, the powerful, the complacent-and himself. He spent his passion on human suffering. Though he ended his days as an East German showpiece, Brecht's economic philosophy was little more than an emotional assent to Proudhon's "Property is theft...