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...minor pictures. He had the scripts with him because producers all over the world are nonetheless begging him to work for them. He needed hospitalization because he is physically shot. During the past 20 months, he has suffered sand burns on his feet, sprained both ankles, cracked an anklebone, torn ligaments in his thigh and hip, dislocated his spine, broken his thumb, partially lost the use of two fingers, sprained his neck, and suffered two concussions. The survivor's name is Peter O'Toole, and he is Sam Spiegel's Lawrence of Arabia...
...sharply focused early realism to the sun-swatched impressionism of his later work. He was, in fact, perhaps the first American to be attracted by the impressionists' vision. But he was never an imitator of his great French contemporaries. Critic John Baur notes that he was always torn between his loyalty to line and solid form and his wish to achieve the effect that the impressionists got by dissolving line and form in color and atmosphere. Robinson never solved the dilemma, but this failure may have been all to the good. What Robinson wanted, as he himself...
...Polo, Marquesa de Villaverde, 36, the only child of Spain's Francisco Franco. All was serene while the photographers snapped away. Then the Marquesa's next youngest child, María del Mar. handed her mother a tiny box. As the last bit of gift wrapping was torn away, out popped a squeaky, spring-powered mouse, bringing a cry of shocked surprise from the Marquesa and a loud laugh from proud Grandpa Franco...
...Peculiar Group." In an effort to duck taxes, he turned to building and refurbishing cargo ships, an operation which the West German government, eager to restore its war-torn merchant marine, made completely tax deductible. Oldtime Hamburg shipping men scornfully dubbed Oetker's armada the "baking powder fleet," but through astute management his fleet of 67 tankers and freighters has kept busy without resorting-as some German shipping companies have-to running Soviet-bloc cargoes for Castro. Characteristically, Oetker got into the insurance business to pare his premiums, built his Condor companies into one of Germany's biggest...
...ransoming by insurance companies, in an abandoned car in Marseille. Though it had escaped serious damage when the thieves pulled it from its frame, the painting needed a new canvas backing. Kansas City Art Conservator James Roth set to work, found an unusually thick layer of glue beneath the torn fabric. He softened the rock-hard glue with wet packs, picked away with tweezers, gradually revealing the white-kerchiefed head of a woman, its strongly modeled face accented by deep red shadows...