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Will Hays, 66, was confused with an Encino, Calif, neighbor named Will Hays, who died. Ex-Cinema Czar Hays, alive & well, modified only slightly the standard denial. Said he: "The rumor of my death is just as exaggerated as was the remark that Mark Twain made famous...
Like most artists, Lurçat liked medieval tapestries best. He admired their storybook symbolism, straightforward drawing and economical restriction to blacks, reds and yellows. At Aubusson, Beauvais and the world-famous Gobelin tapestry works in Paris, descendants of the medieval masters still labored. But their models were mostly second-rate Italian engravings and 18th Century boudoir muralists like Boucher and Fragonard. Twentieth Century tapestries used as many as 14,000 different hues of thread, took years to finish. But medieval ones, designed to be "frescoes in wool," used as few as 17 hues and were far simpler to weave...
...Watters learned about jazz secondhand. When he was born in Santa Cruz, Calif, in 1911, Pianist Jelly Roll Morton was ragtiming the opera Martha up & down the Mississippi; Bunk Johnson was playing his cornet in Storyville's famous Eagle Band and teaching his eleven-year-old "boy Louis" (Armstrong) to blow his first blues. Bull-necked Lu Watters was less than 11 when he blew his first trumpet...
Mexico City's 400-year-old Casa de Azulejos (House of Blue Tiles) has been a private palace, the Jockey Club, the Russian Embassy, the Japanese Embassy, a dormitory for homeless newsboys, and, since 1919, the home of Sanborn's, most famous American business in Mexico. Last week the store in the old palace became the 416th link in the Walgreen drug chain. In its first venture outside the U.S., Walgreen's paid $2,500,000 to Ohio-born Frank Sanborn, 76, for the drugstore he founded 43 years ago with...
...these earliest Americans-Folsom Man, Sandia Man, Cochise Man-not a single bone has yet been found. But weapons, gnawed animal bones and camp sites indicate his existence beyond dispute. The first archeologist to find the authentic bones of a Pleistocene American will be the most famous digger in the Western Hemisphere...