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Called "Red" because of his carrot mane and his penchant for clashing red clothes, Grooms is as gently ingenuous as his art. After high school in Nashville (where he was voted "Most Witty"), he successively studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, at the New School, and with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown. Fascinated with things theatrical, he also became head usher at the old Roxy in New York. "Part of art is showmanship," he says. He directed his own "happenings" and acted in them in clown's whiteface and ice-cream pants. Action painting was a religious faith...
...expanded and dilated," Whittaker explained obligingly. "Yang is constricted and solid, Yin is purple; yang is red. Yin is cold; yang is hot. Yin grows up; yang grows down. Which do you think is more yin, a tomato or a carrot...
...frail, carrot-topped youngster in Michigan, Vaughn took up boxing in self-defense, went on to win the state Golden Gloves title as a 124-lb. feather weight (and have his nose broken three times, his jaw once). Picking up his master's degree from the University of Michigan in 1947, he spent ten years in Bolivia, Costa Rica and Panama as a United States Information Service officer and as a coordinator of U.S. aid projects. In 1961 he went to Washington as director of the Peace Corps' sprawling Latin American operation. President Johnson soon tagged...
Daddy Warbucks is in serious trouble. The egg-bald guardian of that ageless comic-strip carrot top, Little Orphan Annie, has been railroaded into a private insane asylum run by one Dr. Le Quaque. "Worse'n a real prison," says Annie, after casing the place and discovering that patients, as another strip character puts it, "as sane as anybody but labeled crazy are stuck here in this snake pit with no chance o' gettin...
Pettigrew suggested that a new civil rights act should carry "not just a stick, but a carrot," in the form of rewards for integration. He mentioned "balanced schools" as an example. If balanced schools offered special courses that students could not take at other schools, parents would recognize the advantages of the system, and the stability of balanced schools might increase, he predicted...