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...position. "We are edited solely for the women in the 18-to-34 age group," insisted Advertising Director Arthur Stein, himself a superannuated 52. "If we had some way to tell them to go away and stop reading the magazine after that, we would do it." With these blunt words, Redbook Editor Robert Stein, 40, and no kin to Arthur, expressed full agreement. While Adman Stein is straightforwardly encouraging older readers to take it on the lam, Editor Stein says he is taking a subtler tack: he is running large amounts of fiction on the theory that elderly females...
Motion makes Calder's imagery. Line meanders, mobiles wobble, stabiles broad-jump. His art is open and practical, restless and even coarse. Blunt as his shears permit, it also is in love with innocence and in charge of material reality. It is "100% American," as Leger once stated, yet as international an expression as any man who ever made happiness with his hands...
...other Neshoba countians, including two Philadelphia city cops, were arraigned on two counts of depriving local Negroes of their rights by "arresting, incarcerating and detaining" them. In one case, Rainey, Price & Co. were accused of "striking, beating and whipping" a Negro, in another of clubbing a Negro with a blunt instrument. The maximum penalty on each count is one year in prison and a $1,000 fine...
...front walls of the small shop--called the Book Pedlar--are lined with inexpensive booklets and pamphlets. The titles are blunt: "Communism and the Negro Revolution" (44 pages, published by the "Patrick Henry Group"); "The Socialistic Views of Nelson Rockefeller" (published by the Independent American, "a national Conservative newspaper, which is dedicated to the restoration of Constitutional Government"); and "The Time Has Come, An Up-to-date Report to Those Who Know the Score" (by Robert Welch, founder of the John Birch Society...
Drainpipe Laocoön. Blunt, thickset Paolozzi, 40, son of Italian peasants who wound up in Edinburgh selling ice cream, has the mien of his bulky monsters. He practices judo with a passion. "There comes a split second in judo," he says, "when absolutely everything matters. It should be the same in art." He is fascinated by Greek mythology and, indeed, has wrestled 4-in. pipe into torsos, titling it Towards a Laoco...