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...just as serious about having my paintings not mean anything as abstractionists are about having theirs mean something," says Jean Jones Jackson, a Connecticut matron who taught herself to draw during a bout with TB 15 years ago. "I can't bear anything symbolic." Jackson protests that she paints only small pictures because her technique is too poor to allow her to paint big ones. In fact, her pettiness is a positive dimension, making what might otherwise be a fairly conventional mix of Rene Magritte and Grandma Moses seem witty, bizarre and remote...
...What title bout drew the largest gate...
...resolved to break the mold in which family and education had cast him -not, with paint brush but with pencil -he privately published a book of verse. Then, after a bout as a medical corpsman in the Turkish-Montenegrin skirmish before World War I, and marriage to the sister of an Oxford friend, he served the Empire as an assistant district officer in Nigeria. That Empire in its heyday has been described as a "system of outdoor relief for the upper classes." Cary needed the relief; his money...
...Johnson, the 6-3 forward who provides rebounding strength for the often-beleaguered front line, has returned to Cambridge after a rough bout with the flu, but indications are that he won't try to play this weekend, postponing his re-debut until Monday, at Tufts...
...Killing Rounds. The match, held at the Oriental Park Race Track in Havana on a blistering hot April afternoon, was scheduled for a man-killing 45 rounds. It lasted 26, or one hour and 44 minutes, making it the longest heavyweight championship bout in this century. Five years later, Johnson, broke and living in Paris, sold a "confession" to a magazine in which he claimed that he had thrown the fight for $50,000 and the promise of leniency from the U.S., where he was wanted for violating the Mann Act. Willard's reaction: "If Johnson throwed the fight...