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...paintings reproduced during his lifetime, exhibited rarely and reluctantly. Last week, four years after his death at 85, 63 of Yeats' drawings and watercolors were on display at London's Waddington Galleries. Almost every one of them has been sold. Said Eric Newton in the Man chester Guardian: "His uniqueness lay in his extraordinary gift for turning an Irish brogue and a Celtic pilt into pigment...
When Playwright J. M. Synge toured Ireland's "western world" for the Man chester Guardian, Yeats went along. He filled sketchbook after sketchbook with scenes of Irishmen at race tracks, country fairs and circuses, and in boats, turf bogs and pubs. Foreign artists, especially those from England, rarely were able to paint the Irish without a touch of mockery, as if they were a nation of stock buffoons. Yeats painted them as they were, and the Irish loved...
Died. Rear Admiral Giles Chester Stedman, USNR, 63, vice president of the United States Lines and former superintendent of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, a skilled skipper famed for his rescues at sea and for evacuating 1,400 people from Singapore aboard the refitted luxury liner America in 1942 while under Japanese bomber attack; of a stroke; in London. His oddest lifesaving exploit occurred off Ireland in 1939, when a Nazi U-boat torpedoed the British freighter Olive Grove only after waiting for her 33-man crew to escape in rowboats, then fired rockets to summon Stedman's liner...
...when one of their own hacks away at the pedestal. Last week, on a Washington television program, ex-Adman (cofounder of the high-powered agency, Benton & Bowles, Inc.), ex-Bureaucrat (OPA price administrator), ex-Governor (of Connecticut), ex-Ambassador (to India), ex-Congressman and now Under Secretary of State Chester Bowles committed the Madison Avenue equivalent of treason: he dismissed his advertising career as a youthful mistake...
...Denver has a natural drawing attraction," Chancellor Chester M. Alter (Ph. D. in chemistry from Harvard, 1934), said, noting that DU is the only private university within a thousand-mile radius touching St. Louis, the West Coast, Dallas, and Canada...