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As a child, Diosdado tended the big, black water buffaloes that are the Philippine beasts of burden, stole out at night to catch frogs in the rice fields for food, and did well enough in the village school to be named class valedictorian. He would have been too ashamed of...
With my apologies to the judges, I must say that I preferred Miss Rochlin's blue-toned nude (in Briggs) to the winning canvas. It is here that she achieves her greatest compositional balance and subtlety of color. The nude reclines, her head and right elbow tossed back, and strenuous...
While Safran was stirring his paint and laboring over his canvas, Associate Editor Gilbert Cant and Researcher Jean Bergerud, as well as 17 TIME correspondents around the U.S., were visiting laboratories and quizzing virologists to put together the cover story. Touring a virus and vaccine laboratory, Medicine Writer Cant donated...
Improbable though his story seems, a Stone Age man, practically untouched by modern civilization, was alive in the U.S. only 50 years ago. When he stumbled out of the brush near Oroville in northern California one August morning in 1911, he was naked except for a scrap of canvas thrown...
Whatever he did, Augustus John did with dash, and that often made it hard to see the man and his work in perspective. "I'm just a legend," he once said. "I'm not a real person at all." His life on the surface seemed a series of...