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...hangout, the old Cedar Bar. Painter Barnett Newman tried to keep him out of it. "The.y're laying for you," warned Newman. "You go in there a hero, and you come out a bum." One of Pollock's last major works was 1955's Search, an encyclopedia of his artistry in joyous Christmas colors. Its true thrill is seen best close up: an endless antipasto of textures, oils stained and then swirled into pastes, squiggles and scumbles, flecks and fissures that the viewer's eye wanders among, jerking with the appeal of each tiny element...
...money, LIFE gets domestic magazine rights to the astronauts' story. Field Enterprises, which is owned by Chicago Publisher Marshall Field Jr. (Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Daily News, World Book Encyclopedia), acquired newspaper syndication and book rights as its share of the bargain. Field has formed World Book Encyclopedia Science Service in order to syndicate the astronauts' stories on an international scale...
...endorsement of Henry A. Wallace for President. Haughtily elegant, sporting a white goatee and pince-nez, he boasted of his French-Dutch-Negro mixed blood ("but, thank God, no Anglo-Saxon"), turned left with age, two years ago moved to Ghana to become director of the Nkrumah government-sponsored Encyclopedia Africana, and joined the Communist Party, apologizing for having been so "long and slow" in confirming his Red faith...
Divorced. Marshall Field Jr., 47, proprietor of a Chicago publishing empire (Sun-Times, Daily News, World Book Encyclopedia); by Katherine Woodruff Field, 35, his second wife; after 13 years of marriage, three children; on grounds of mental cruelty; in Reno...
...Gillette gamely considers the trend good news for the economy as a whole. At Los Angeles' May Co. department stores, a $200,000 collection of primitive art from New Guinea is selling like sunglasses at $3 to $3,000 apiece. There is a boom in book and encyclopedia sales, and the cosmetics industry is lifting its face this year toward $2 billion in sales for the first time. There is also a definite tendency for American consumers to "trade up" to more luxurious items and better grades of clothes and appliances; sales of fine jewelry are rising faster than...