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...approximately one a.m. a flaming ashcan appeared in the center of the yard. Soon, fifteen Cambridge firemen came rushing from their nocturnal slumbers to quench the celebration. Armed with two pumpers and a rescue unit, the men made quick work of the inferno as five firefighters overturned the container and the rest flooded its contents...
...Bois and Writer-Illustrator William Pène du Bois, uncle of Broadway set and costume Designer Raoul Pène du Bois; of cancer; in Boston. With George Luks, John Sloan, William Glackens, Du Bois was an honor student in Robert Henri's pre-World War I Ashcan School of American art, i.e., realists. With his richly colored, firmly fleshed figures (Bal des Quatre Arts, Carnival Interlude), Du Bois-whose work is represented in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art-bucked the march toward abstraction, wrote...
...painting winners: Manhattan's Zygmunt Menkes for his bright Girl with Mirror; San Francisco's Frank Ashley for his lively #12 Adler (see color page): Manhattan's Louis Bouché for his quiet Still Life with Blocks; Westchester County's Edmond Fitzgerald for his ashcan-ish My Studio; Manhattan's Sidney Gross for his abstract Promontory; Brooklyn's Joan Starwood for her abstract Fugue in Blue-Green; and Manhattan's Erne Joseph for his abstract Intersectional. The sculpture winners: Peter Abate of Brookline, Mass, for. his tamely symbolic marble Beginning of Life; Arnold...
...shelves around them. One book among the thousands, however, is a subversive tome entitled The Communist Dream. Bette never lets it go into circulation without warning the borrower of its deleterious effects, but she is disturbed when the city council tells her to put it in the ashcan. "What," wonders Bette, "would Thomas Jefferson say to a request like this?" She refuses, and more in sorrow than anger the city council fires...
...Derrick Greaves, 28, specialist in everyday drama in the city's back streets, similar to the U.S.'s own turn-of-thecentury Ashcan School...