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...drawings were accepted-and the museum never had reason for regrets. Topolski's tortuous but versatile line, which had led him from Warsaw to London, eventually made him one of Britain's best war artists and earned him an international reputation as a caricaturist besides. Last week Topolski's latest oils and drawings were on exhibition in London's Leicester Galleries and his caricatures brightened the pages of the current Vogue. The sketches (of Churchill, Daladier, Paul Ramadier and Bertrand Russell, among others) were better than his frightening, jumbled paintings of battles and blitz, courts...
...Grand Prix is no Sunday drive. The tortuous 198-mile course zigzags through narrow city streets, swoops uphill & down. In the 1937 race, a Frenchman drove over a cliff into the sea, and one Italian ended Up with his radiator embedded in the ticket office of Monte Carlo's railroad station. Last week, after 50 laps (halfway), eleven of the 19 cars in the race had quit. But Igor, gripping the wheel of his No. 36, a crimson Ferrari, was still in the running. Then it happened...
Henry remained in India for 35 tortuous years. He married Annette Arkroyd, who had come to India with the naive but passionate determination to educate and emancipate the women...
Before 60,000 Romans in the jammed Piazza del Popolo, Palmiro Togliatti, Italy's No. 1 Communist, laid down the new line. Clad in a grey, double-breasted suit, he mounted a flag-draped truck, lashed out in a high-pitched voice against the "tortuous and Jesuitical policy" of the Western powers. "These powers do not want peace on our Eastern frontier," he charged. "Their declaration . . . amounts to ... an invitation to prepare for war." As for Trieste: "I repeat that after April 18 and the victory of the Democratic Front, we shall have peaceful accord with Yugoslavia within...
...week's end, Secretary Marshall appeared in the open-air theater at-the University of California, to present the case before the U.S. Looking back on the tortuous road the world had traveled since V-J day, he said: "Rule based on threats and force must not be allowed to spread further unchecked. . . . The situation is the duplication of the high-handed procedure of the Nazi regime...