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...Fordingbridge, England, Artist Augustus John (TIME, May 31), 70, who used to raggle-taggle among the gypsies when he was younger, ran smack into a silly technicality of civilization: a ?2 fine for driving a car without a license...
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London's Victoria and Albert Museum was once considering the purchase of three drawings by a young Pole named Feliks Topolski. Said one committeeman: "We must draw the line somewhere!" Portraitist Augustus John answered the objection with a crack: "But can you draw the line like Topolski...
...Frank Knox Fellowship for study in the British Commonwealth went to Joseph Dee Everingham '49, of Clear-water, Florida, and Kirkland House, while the Augustus Clifford Tower Fellowship for study in a French university was gained by John Marshall Alcorn '45 of Pontiac, Illinois, and Eliot House. Both men are in History and Literature...
...Title for Everybody. By teatime on opening day, the artists had drifted away and the gallery had begun to fill up with John's rich and fashionable friends. "Augustus is no snob," one of his more feline cronies once remarked. "He'd like everybody to have a title." Queen Elizabeth had had a private showing two days earlier (her wartime sittings for John were interrupted by a German bomb; she is reported to think that she has taken on a bit too much weight to have the portrait continued...