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...biennial exhibition that opens at São Paulo, Brazil this week contained no less than 5,000 contemporary paintings, and of them perhaps one in ten might interest future ages. Standout shows within the show were a collection of pale and wan but faultless abstractions by Britain's Ben Nicholson, the weightless, rainbow fantasies of France's Marc Chagall, and 30 dim-dusty canvases by Italy's Giorgio Morandi. Nicholson and Chagall were considered stiff contenders for the 300,000-cruzeiro ($3,780) grand prize. After the usual frenzied politicking, the 17 international jurymen settled...
...five on her scorecard for the fourth hole, where she had actually shot a six. When the error was discovered she was disqualified. The new women's open champion: South Carolina's Betsy Rawls, who had the second best 72-hole total of 299. ¶Turning the biennial Newport-Annapolis race around and sailing northward made some refreshing changes in the East Coast yachting classic: more boats than ever before (48) beat down Chesapeake Bay from the starting line; they swung north toward -Newport, and 32 of them broke the elapsed-time record for the 468-mile course...
...Washington, the biennial election of the League of Republican Women came close to hair-pulling when the Old Guard girls snatched away and tore up the sample ballots of the Eisenhower Republican faction . . . To Republican Dwight Eisenhower from Michigan Republican William Doerfner, a General Motors steering-gear executive, came an angry letter: "I will no longer support you, nor will I support the Republican Party, as long as it condones your proven unsound monetary politics and your New Deal-inspired international WPA . . ." In New Hampshire, the reactionary Republican Manchester Union Leader editorially called the President of the U.S. a "stinking...
...snap nearly 2 billion photographs with 59 million cameras in 1956, Americans spent a record $982,897,000. Last week, as 100,000 camera fans jammed the Second Biennial International Photographic Exposition in Washington, D.C., the picture was even bigger: more than $1 billion will be spent in 1957. Crammed inside the National Guard Armory were 30 acres of displays by 154 U.S. and 84 foreign exhibitors, the biggest collection of camera gadgetry ever assembled...
...Davidson wrote at the time when Manhattan's famed 1913 Armory Show plunged the U.S. headlong into modern art. Davidson's counsel was still being pondered this week as museum doors opened on the two biggest prize-giving events of the year. Washington's 25th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago's 62nd American Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, which together announced awards totaling $12.200. Between them, the two shows constituted a study of contemporary U.S. painting and sculpture, and supplied this year...