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...STEVE ARNO Missoula, Mont...
...Pontifical Commission on Sacred Art, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum this week puts on view 46 frescoes from walls in Tuscany. Many were removed from their original locations and mounted on separate panels during the past two years because of severe damage resulting from the disastrous 1966 Arno River floods. All are being allowed this unprecedented, seven-week-long excursion across the Atlantic as Italy's way of saying grazie to Americans who, through the Committee to Rescue Italian Art, gave $2,200,000 for the restoration of Florentine monuments and masterpieces...
Died. Peter Arno, 64, celebrated cartoonist whose deft barbs sharpened the pages of The New Yorker for 43 years; of emphysema; in Port Chester, N.Y. In hundreds of New Yorker cartoons, the urbane Arno (born Curtis Arnoux Peters) aimed his thrusts at wattled old roues ("Tell me about yourself, your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number"), besabled matrons and their derby-hatted husbands ("Come on-we're going to the Trans-Lux to hiss Roosevelt"), flappers with more booze than brain in their heads ("Ixnay, Edith, I just found out we're at the wrong party"). Some...
...CLASSIC CARTOONS edited by William Cole and Mike Thaler. 336 pages. World. $8.95. A collection that synthesizes the wit of the U.S., Britain and the Continent, though with a heavy reliance on The New Yorker and Punch. Just about all the old favorites are here, from Arno to Price to Rose, Dempsey, Cruikshank and Searle...
Sliding Forests. Disaster began with a cyclonic storm that poured millions of tons of water into the Arno, the Po and their tributaries. In the mountain resort of Alleghe, a hotel employee reported that the nearby lake was overflowing its banks, pushing whole forests down the sides of the mountain. In the Trentino region near Austria, 30,000 persons were left homeless. The torrent uprooted vineyards in Chianti-producing Tuscany and massacred livestock in a region that produces most of Italy's meat. In Venice, it heavily damaged some 7,000 shops, though canal-traveling Venetians were better able...