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Lieut. General Harold Keith Johnson, 52, new Army Chief of Staff, replaces Wheeler. In selecting him, President Johnson skipped over 43 more senior generals. A slight, sandy-haired man, Johnson was a lieutenant colonel with the 57th Infantry (Philippine Scouts) when the Japanese invaded the islands in 1941. He was captured, endured the infamous Bataan death march, survived three years in Japanese prison camps. In Korea in 1950, he took command of a combat infantry battalion, fought through the bloody defense of the Pusan perimeter and later was named a regimental commander. Back in the U.S., Johnson became commandant...
PETER LANYON-Viviano, 42 East 57th. "If you go to St. Ives you will notice the blue," says Lanyon of his English birthplace and home, and if you go to see his paintings you will too. Lanyon likes to float low in his glider, a vantage point that wins him curious perspectives: Lake looks like a rubber life raft filled with water, North East seems to offer a view right through a terrace table, and Spring Coast is a maze of curves and curlicues in phosphorescent green and fresh red. Through...
CONSAGRA AND FRIENDS-Odyssia, 41 East 57th. Five contemporary Italians wear the mantle of their rich sculptural heritage with distinction. Pietro Consagra, winner of the 1960 Venice Biennale's International Sculpture Award, carves "colloquies" in slabs of stainless steel and wood. Alberto Viani smoothes sweeping surfaces to an Arp-like elegance. Quinto Ghermandi coaxes bronze until it is as fragile as a leaf. Francesco Somaini, Best Foreign Sculptor in Sao Paulo's 1959 Bienal. makes magnificent metal meteorites both rugged and grand. Leoncillo bakes gres (a clay mixture) until his solder-colored shapes look as if they sprung...
PAUL REYBEROLLE-Marlborough-Gerson, 41 East 57th. The U.S. gets its first good look at a French painter who serves up frogs, couples and countrysides. As if performing a fertility rite in the paint itself, Reyberolle stirs around a mess of goopy green to convey the spume and spawn of swamp life and, with a calculated confusion of limbs, portrays lovers tumbling in a field, successfully suggests the mystery and fecundity of nature. Thirty oils. Through June...
JAMES METCALF-Loeb, 12 East 57th. The polished brass sculptures of an American in Paris all have secrets, none of which will be told here, for the fun of walking around Metcalf's pieces is the surprise of revelation. In his second one-man show in New York he proves to be a sculptor with an extraordinary imagination, honed, perhaps, by considerable contact with the surrealists. Through June...