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Admirers of Vincent Van Gogh got a tantalizing glimpse this week of an all-but-unknown painting by the great Dutchman. New York Herald Tribune Art Critic Emily Genauer, who lives in Croton, N.Y., had run across it one evening in the living room of a neighbor. The neighbor insisted on anonymity, but agreed to let Critic Genauer print a black & white reproduction in her Sunday column...
...present double life clearly troubles Harari. Pale and frail-looking, he keeps two easels and two drawing tables in his studio at Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., uses one set of equipment for morning abstractions and the other for afternoon commercial jobs. Like any artist, Harari longs to be both independent and popular: "I'd like to be close to people, but you know how the ordinary Joe feels about abstractions. Without being patronizing I'd like to be akin, to express what people are feeling. For example, there were 6,000,000 Jews killed in Europe...
With the Scoharie Reservoir overflowing yesterday, Howell shifted his attack to the Westchester region. The Croton reservoir received only .14 inches of rainfall on Thursday, while Scoharie absorbed .8. Reservoirs now hold 78.5 percent of capacity, as compared to 97 percent at this time last year...
...never once heard him or anyone else from Greenpoint mispronounce the section's name. . .It is perfectly true that New Yorkers often render "oi" as "er," and vice versa, but I can swear under oath that Greenpoint is called Greenpernt only by people from Coney Island, Croton-on-Hudson and Beverly Hills...
...nothing more about it. He wrote eloquent articles for Communist publications in the U.S., and became general secretary of Manhattan's Morning Freiheit Association, which publishes the Communist Yiddish-language newspaper, Morning Freiheit. For the past few years Bittelman has been a mild looking suburbanite, commuting from Croton on Hudson to Manhattan...