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...surrealism. He puts familiar objects in unfamiliar settings with cavalier abandon. Almost every dreamlike painting is set on an undifferentiated desert stage. Bearded sages tote trays of naked dolls on their heads as if bearing man's fate on their minds, while disputing some unknown subject. A balloon bobs over a barren strand carrying a pipe organ. In The Drummer (see opposite page) the images on flaking and fading billboards alternate between stage flats and solid figures in a wistful play of appearance and reality...
...sculptor. Isn't it silly?" he said, but he didn't mean it. To him, his style of sculpturing is unalloyed joy, and all around Rube Goldberg's studio the happy evidence is beginning to pile up. There is a balloon-breasted Lady Godiva in plasteline - being leered at by her horse. Under a sign reading PLASTIC SURGERY sit three miniature patients in desperate cosmetic need: a man and wife with Jimmy Durante schnozzles and a hopeful-looking toucan. They all look very much like comic-strip characters in three dimensions. Which is just what they...
...races of the afternoon were the Beatle and balloon relays. An East House quintet twisted and shouted to a first in the Beatle event, in which the contestants had to don Beatle wigs and flippers, and then kick across the 20-ft. pool without using their hands or losing their wigs...
...balloon relay, swimmers had to blow up balloons until they burst, and then dive into the pool for one freestyle lap. East House racers ballooned as fast as they Beatled, and won this...
Earlier attempts to look for water on Venus had been frustrated by the masking effect of the abundant water vapor in the earth's lower atmosphere, but the 87,500-ft. level where the balloon-telescope took its pictures is above nearly all of the earth's vapor. Thus the spectral absorption that it photographed was almost entirely free from earthside confusion. Says Dr. Strong: "About 95% of the water that we saw was on Venus...