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Born in 1802, Landseer was certainly one of the most prodigious of child prodigies'. At twelve, he became the youngest artist ever to exhibit at the academy. He grew up to be a small, handsome man whose head, Painter John Constable sourly noted, was "beautifully decorated with a thousand curls." He was accepted in all the best houses, and was a favorite of Queen Victoria, who at one time owned no fewer than 39 of his oils. But though his youthful work still shows a certain delicacy of touch, things began to change when he was in his late...
Service with the Ventura County Civil Defense Organization convinced Californian Richard Doremus that residential nuclear fallout shelters are essential to the nation's total defense. Experience as a home builder convinced Doremus that he was the man to get things going in the "Exhibit Homes" development he was building in the Los Angeles suburbia of San Fernando Valley. For prospective buyers of his $29,500 to $31,500 houses, Doremus offered a bomb shelter under the garage for $1,100 extra. The small...
...Some people are enthusiastic about the idea," says Exhibit Homes Vice President Louis Towne, "while others take the position that we simply are not going to have a war. There's still the need for great public education on this issue...
...National Review, and a number of conservative Baptist groups, Operation Abolition has come in for searching criticism by the Jesuit weekly America, the Protestant Christian Century, Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike. After making its own study of the events, the National Council of Churches urged Protestant ministers "not to exhibit the film unless a full and fair presentation" of all the facts is made...
Wonderfully Disgraceful. The newest De Chirico malediction involved Milan's respected Brera Galleria, which last week put up for sale 248 examples of modern art that included six De Chiricos, two of them in his metaphysical style. Strolling through the exhibit before the sale, white-thatched De Chirico, now 72. was spotted by an attendant who asked: "Maestro, if you were on a sinking ship with these six paintings, vhich one would you save?" "I'd save them all," replied the maestro, and promptly went about "saving...