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This week Ralston Crawford's painted reports were reproduced in the December FORTUNE and went on view in a Manhattan gallery. The closest thing to nature in his blast pictures was an occasional circle (representing portholes) which he included for the sake of contrast "as you would show the whiteness of a wall by putting a thumbprint on it." His Test Able was a pat, flat imitation of chaos...
...anybody vainly looking for the atom bomb's familiar and awesome mushrooming spray, Abstractionist Crawford explained that he had painted what he felt, not what he saw. His paintings, he added, were "a comment on the negative and positive expressions of contemporary society, with an emphasis on the negative. . . . Definitely most people won't understand. . . . They approach pictures-not only my own but all works of art-with the mistaken idea that they can understand them after looking at them briefly. Yet these same people would expect to spend several hours on a work of art like...
...soon developed that the drummer, Jimmy Crawford, is a comedian on the side. Though he had to peer over one of the most enormous cymbals ever affixed to a set of traps, and was situated somewhat obscurely at the very back center of the stage, the pained contortionings of his thin, mobile face and the adept drumstick twirling of his educated fingers got a great deal of attention from the audience. The drummer, the pianist, and the bass player, when they were functioning behind the clarinet, managed to build up a charged rhythmic setting which did fully as much...
...Georgia's Dr. Crawford W. Long claimed to have operated with ether in 1842, but published no report until 1849; Connecticut's'Dentist Horace Wells used laughing gas (nitrous oxide) in 1844 for tooth-pulling...
...Hollywood, Richard B. Crawford et ux last week sued ABC's Bride & Groom program for $17,000 damages. The charge: Bride & Groom at the last minute had reneged on a promised wedding-on-the-air, with all the trimmings-honeymoon in Las Vegas, flowers, photographs, sterling silver service and a truckload of kitchen equipment. They had to get married finally at their own expense...