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...Frenchmen standing at a bar were blown to bits by a bomb. The fellaghas called themselves "The Army of Liberation"; they were joined by urban terrorists known as "Death Battalions." The rebels swept through dozens of French villages, burning, looting and killing. Scores of French civilians were knifed or torn to pieces before the troops swung into action...
Another Slice of Pizza. In Hoboken, in a coldwater flat ("one can to four families"). Frank was born on Dec. 12, 1915. He weighed 13½ lbs. at birth, and in the delivery his head was badly ripped by the forceps, and one of his ear lobes was torn away; he carries the scars to this day. The doctor laid the unbreathing baby on the bed. thinking him stillborn, and turned to save the mother. Frank survived because his grandmother snatched him up and put him under the cold-water faucet...
...most ambitious new work-a triptych he calls Thermopylae-Kokoschka allowed that "it embodies all the richness of painting art, all the invention of painters, and all the knowledge of painting of the past." In the center panel of the triptych (see cut) a Greek warrior, representing Europe torn between East and West, stands hesitant. To his right, in an ascending crescent, are a traitor, a seer, and a standoffish sort of god. To his left, the battle rages, a lost one, because "battles are always lost...
...Gotta Go On." His rapid ascension came partly because Tammany was torn by factionalism, partly because of his capacity for work and his attention to political details, partly because the late Bronx Leader Ed Flynn, the real power in New York politics during Tammany's dog days, spotted De Sapio as a comer. Says Julie McArdle, who was Flynn's secretary for 20 years and is now De Sapio's: "I remember Mr. Flynn saying Mr. De Sapio was the only Tammany leader he could sit down with since Mr. Murphy, and not have to talk...
...most New Haven suburban stations (TIME, July 4) had him on the run. At first, when commuters objected, President McGinnis snapped angrily that he was not running "the Ford Foundation," and added: "Because I want to charge a lousy five bucks, people act as though I've torn up the tracks." Last week he realized that such cracks were "a public-relations blunder." He postponed indefinitely the Norwalk parking fee, scheduled a series of meetings to mollify the New Haven's commuters...