Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Portfolio is by no means stereotyped in its choice of material, presenting a wide range of media and technique. Eric Martin combines a photographic process with his brush-and-ink self-portrait, symbolizing "the eye" as an artist conceives it. Willard Midgette and Earl Newman offer woodcuts whose heavy, determined forms bespeak another temperament and approach altogether...
...screamed to the world that he was "Philip-just Philip" has not only acquired a hairbrush, but a sonorous list of ranks and titles-he is a Knight Commander of the Garter, the officially designated "First Gentleman of the Realm,"* His Royal Highness the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth. Baron Greenwich, Field Marshal, Air Marshal and Fleet Admiral of the Royal Navy-and an allowance of pocket money from the privy purse sufficient ($112,000 yearly) to maintain his position in style...
...Earl "Fatha" Mines Solo (Fantasy LP), the first solo album in years by one of the granddaddies of the modern jazz piano. The selections-My Monday Date, Deep Forest, R. R. Blues-span much of the "Fatha's" career, starting with the late '20s, when he was jamming with Louis Armstrong in Chicago. The left hand is as bouncy and ebullient as ever; the famous "trumpet" right hand still shimmies over the keys and chops out the big, gaudy chords that have been the envy of a generation of jazz pianists...
Died. William Allen Jowitt, 72, first (1952) Earl Jowitt; in Bury St. Edmunds, England. Famed British barrister and sometime (1922-24) Liberal Member of Parliament, Jowitt was Attorney General in the second Labor government (1929-31) of Ramsay MacDonald, Solicitor General (1940-42) in Winston Churchill's wartime coalition, Lord Chancellor (1945-51) in the Cabinet of Labor's Clement Attlee, writer of whip-witted prose on legal subjects. Most notable of his works: The Strange Case of Alger Hiss, in which he concluded that Defendant Hiss (see PEOPLE) was unjustly convicted of perjury, the case a monument...
...Trouble. In Houston, Donald Earl Basham, 29, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for robbery, burglary and theft after he broke into a young woman's apartment at 2 a.m., stole some of her Scotch to wash down four tranquilizer pills, forced her for a couple of hours to help him while he looted the place, then passed...