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...like to paint people at different levels, and sometimes with wheels under them so they can move about more quickly." He also uses giant faces, single eyes, fantastic animals, and meaningless signs to fill odd corners of his designs with elusive life. This week's show offered, amidst a host of similar fantasies, people on unicycles carrying dumbbells. The dumbbells. Kingman airily explained, "give weight to my painting." Turning serious, he added: "I'm disappointed when people take my work too seriously...
...Amidst this fashionable glare of paint, Charles Burchfield's Early Winter Twilight seemed somber, unassuming and timeless. Burchfield, 66, who has been ill and little heard from in the past few years, has recently recovered his health and turned out more than 30 watercolors in the last year. Twilight was begun 16 years ago, finished six months ago. It dramatically celebrates the slushy black winter climate of the Buffalo (N.Y.) region where Burchfield lives. "The sky is the leading actor," Burchfield explained. "I was trying to express the threat of winter coming. There is a single light...
...City's United Parents Associations. "What happens in the nation's largest city makes its impact throughout the country. Educational neglect means aggravation of the conditions leading to irresponsibility and lawlessness among our youth, an increasing economic burden for social welfare, the perpetuation of islands of squalor amidst shining centers of commerce and culture. And what is most tragic of all, it means that the potential genius and greatness in some of the youth in New York will go largely undiscovered and undeveloped." The answer, that poor and immigrant New Yorkers have always managed to rise...
...those who are waiting anxiously for the Category of Flaws, they can keep on waiting. They were probably there, but they seem to fade into the background amidst the gaiety and fun. If you're looking for a really happy evening, this...
...first nine months. Other nine-month rail earnings: 1958 1959 New Haven $3,534,080 $7,362,154 (loss) (loss) Erie 5,487,565 5,191,812 (loss) (loss) Union Pacific 2.17 1.87 Oil company earnings for the third quarter were mixed amidst industry reports of overproduction. Big Standard Oil Co. (of California) reported a decline in nine months' earnings to $2.85 v. $2.97 last year. Despite a third-quarter drop in earnings, Gulf Oil Corp. showed nine months' results of $6.49 per share v. $6.13 per share last year. Other oil earnings: 1958 1959 Sinclair...