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TOYS BY ARTISTS-Parsons, 24 West 57th. A grab bag from Santa's other helpers: a black-coiffed, sad-eyed Marisol Doll by Marisol; a block-toy chess set by George Ortman; William King's Pop guns; Lanny Powers' alphabet blocks, in which M stands for Marilyn Monroe. Among the playful creative elves: Andy Warhol, Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Alexander Calder, Richard Lindner, Richard Anuszkiewicz. Through...
LOVIS CORINTH-Frumkin, 32 East 57th. Sixty self-portraits by the late-blooming German impressionist (1858-1925) offer an authentic study in character. Paintings, prints, drawings and watercolors, ranging from the belabored early works of the artist's 20s to the violent chiaroscuro, powerful brush stroke and emotional fervor of his later years. Through...
Screams in the Air. At Lajes Air Force Base in the Azores, the U.S.'s 57th Air Rescue Squadron also swung into action. Shortly after the Lakonia's last message was received, four C-54 rescue planes swung out over the Atlantic toward the flaming vessel, 3 hr. 30 min. flying time away. The planes were loaded with 42 life rafts that could carry 600 persons, 400 blankets, food and survival packages, flares of 300,000 candlepower, and six paramedics who could jump into the ocean to help passengers, if necessary...
...result is a new breed of specialists in "customized" bathrooms. In fact, bathrooms are becoming a prestige item on the scales of conspicuous consumption, a place swimming pools used to hold before everybody had one. Luxury Lavatorist Sherle Wagner of Manhattan's 57th Street is selling baroque swans, dolphins, Cupids and sea horses for spouts and faucet handles as fast as he can gold-plate them, at $129.50 to $800 a set. Cut crystal is in, too, and the most sophisticated of all is pewter with gold decoration. "And, of course, marble like mad," says Wagner. "We just finished...
FRANZ KLINE-Janis, 15 East 57th. At 40, the burly painter was unknown beyond New York's 10th Street galleries, but in the decade before his death last year he earned worldwide recognition as a dynamo of abstract expressionism. Mostly on loan and rarely shown are 30 paintings, spanning his heyday, from 1952 to 1962, which provide in Kline's first New York posthumous show a survey of his black-and-white clashes as well as some uncharacteristic excursions in flamboyant color. Through...