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...began painting seriously in 1956 during his next-to-last year at the Philadelphia Museum College of Art. There, he had "tried the abstract thing for a while, but I always had to get back to people." Today, when he thinks of the new craze for pop art, he becomes "furious. When an artist paints a Campbell's Soup can, he may be saying something valid, but he cuts himself out as an artist. He is no better than the can." Goodman's own idols have always been Velasquez, Vermeer, Goya-and Rembrandt: "He paints a head...
...seeking help, and they were extraordinarily sheepish about telling how they had been wounded. After Captain Michael M. Duffy of the Army's Medical Corps wormed the story out of the first such patient, he learned to spot similar cases quickly. They were victims of the fast-draw craze that has swept the country, and especially the West, in the last five years. Each one had shot himself...
Jimmy Durante would be the first to admit that he would never qualify as a deep student of scientific theory. But last week, one of the Old Schnozz's nightclub specialities-piano wrecking-was becoming the newest college campus craze, and all in the name of science...
Then he took up the saxophone and made like "Cannonball" Adderley, belting out such compositions of his own as Love Without Hope. He supported a troupe of 30 dancing girls and a string of 20 thoroughbreds and worked diligently to improve the breed. Sports are his latest craze. He captains a championship volleyball team and recently dunked in 92 points in a basketball game. Eccentric and mercurial he may be, but Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk, 41, is also one of the shrewdest leaders in South east Asia...
...shop's objects include quill penn, porcupine quills, preserved sea horses, and items like polished dinosaur bones which can be made into jewelry. According to Mrs. Max Hall, who runs the shop with Mrs. Don K. Price, this year has been marked particularly by a "craze for dinosaurs...