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...spent his life in the seaport of Ostend, where he was born in 1860. His father, raised in England and Belgium, and Belgian mother indulged him shamelessly. He lasted exactly two years in school, lived in a world of fairy tales, nightmares, the fascinating clutter of his parents' curio shop and an attic that was "full of horrible spiders, shells, old clothing the color of rust and blood, red and white corals, monkeys, turtles, dried mermaids and stuffed Chinamen...
Mvusi has talked to many contemporary artists in his travels. Although his roots are in native Africa, he is against the "primitive art fad." Aside from a half dozen serious artists, he reports his own country's native artists are "mostly ignorant fellows blighted by curio seekers." Mvusi himself was the second Negro ever to have his work shown in South Africa's major national art exhibition...
...Shots. The contribution of Tijuana (pop. 140,000) to the new prosperity is, as always, tourist dollars. Last year just under 10 million U.S. citizens passed through the arched gates at the border, dropped an estimated $70 million at the Hipódromo de Tijuana race track and in curio shops, restaurants, hotels and brothels. Tijuana also boasts flourishing new residential sections of costly ($20,000 to $25,000) houses...
...aimed at giving chronically indigent Poetry Magazine a dollar transfusion, cerebral Bollingen Prizewinning Poet John Crowe Ransom helped dredge up more than $20,000 (mostly in donations), read some "rather grim" Ransom works to the audience of 750, then sat back to enjoy an auction of books and literary curios. Most curious curio, one of a batch of letters sent over the years to various magazine editors: a terse note from Calvin Coolidge to Sumner Blossom, onetime editor of American Magazine. Wrote Cautious Cal: "I have not written anything on the subject to which you refer and do not expect...
Savrola, though, has more than just curio value: it contains a boy's vision of a kind of greatness that the boy grew up to fulfill. Here is not an echo, but the beginning whispers of a voice that was to become mighty...