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Lowell: re, Putnam; rt, Silver; rg, Richardson; c, Guild; lg, Fry; lt, Greene; le, Mack; backs, Bowditch, Allard, Ayres, Briggs...
...heavy-jowled Painter Chirico has held to his contention that surrealism's fodder is worthless fare. Now he got around to blasting the sins (or possibly imitations of the sins) of his own youth. Squawked Chirico: 19 out of 25 "early Chiricos" exhibited recently by Paris' Galerie Allard were counterfeit Chiricos...
Paris' Galerie Allard immediately called a court official to witness that the paintings had been taken down and the show closed. One of its officers guessed that Chirico "has been looking for this incident. . . It may also be that he is trying to withdraw from art collectors his first paintings...
Perhaps even Chirico could not be sure which of the Galerie Allard's paintings were Chiricos. His own guesstimate of his output is "between two and three thousand canvases." But whether or not some of his early paintings were counterfeit, critics infinitely preferred them to his recent products. Chirico, who once led the parade along with Picasso and Matisse, had run out of gas long ago. Now all he could do was blow his horn...
Lieut. Colonel Edward K. Thompson, head of our Picture Bureau before the war, holds the Legion of Merit... Writer Hugh Fosburgh (now 2nd Lieut. Fosburgh) has the Air Medal with two Oak Leaf clusters...and Captain David Walter Allard of our Cleveland staff has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the Purple Heart and the Croix de guerre with palm for "extraordinary heroism in action." (Allard volunteered to swim the Seine under heavy fire to scout out German positions - was wounded getting back - "despite great pain gave detailed accounts of the enemy disposition that contributed greatly to the success...