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...usual, the critics-panned him, but that did not worry Quinquela, who has sold all the pictures he ever painted. In the first eleven days of the show, 15 pictures were sold at about $1,500 apiece. All of them were bold scenes from La Boca, Buenos Aires' wretched port district where Quinquela grew up and still lives. On the canvases, he has transformed its rusty tramp steamers into gay red and green fleets, its waterfront toughs into noble-looking heroes...
...canvas, too, Quinquela has always tried to transform La Boca, along with the rest of his city. A foundling raised by a dockworker, Quinquela started to draw with charcoal before he could read or write, sold his first paintings for five pesos each. Eventually, he earned enough money to buy a half-acre plot, donated it to the government on condition that it build a school there. He filled the school with gay murals, painted doors, benches and tables in gaudy circus colors, even did the blackboards in pink and blue...
...tired of La Boca's all-pervading drabness, hired a crew of house painters to brighten the Boquenses' homes. Quinquela and his men started to paint the town red-and also blue, green, yellow and orange. When La Boca merrily proclaimed itself an independent republic some years ago, Quinquela took the title of its "Rearest Admiral." He still occasionally wears a blue admiral's uniform with gold screws for buttons, signifying his allegiance to the Order of the Screw which he founded (current membership: 150). Explains Quinquela: "I long ago discovered that anyone worth a damn, anyone...
...estates and guardian of minors. Yet he was a gambler. He gambled at cards and on horses; his project to drain the Dismal Swamp (it is only partly drained to this day) was in a line of wild American land speculation that did not end with Addison Mizner at Boca Raton. Washington gambled at war: with his neck, when he took up arms against the king, and with his army, in bold flashes that interrupted months of the utmost military caution. Despite, or perhaps because of Washington's conservative reverence for God, church and tradition, he turned against...
Divorced. Fred Perry, 46, British-born ex-world champion tennist (amateur and professional), now the pro at Florida's Boca Raton Club; by his third wife, Lorraine Perry, 44, after six years of marriage, no children; in West Palm Beach...