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...massed band, from whose front line of trumpeters fluttered scarlet banners and golden tassels, struck up a martial air. Rain had canceled the air flypast, and Party Secretary Khrushchev, clad in a fawn raincoat and bright green hat, had stolen some of the show by escorting attractive Ekaterina Furtseva, a Moscow party official, to the podium. But now, after the trumpets, Zhukov, with all the pomp and ceremony which the occasion demanded, went to center stage to deliver the official speech...
...when the packing case arrived from Rome last year and the school officials got their first look, they gasped in pained surprise. Inside was a 6½ft. expressionistic bronze statue of a nude, egg-headed boy, braced against a gnarled stump to rescue a fawn from drowning...
...Venice." Back in Bristol, Fazzini's blast got a homespun retort. Editorialized the Bristol Herald Courier: "He said he didn't know where Bristol is after he learned us 'hillbillies' in this 'mountain-locked community' reckoned his divine piece of Small Boy and Fawn wasn't worth the asking price of $8,500 in view of the need for other things-like schoolrooms and such . . . Now frankly we don't have any bones to pick with Mr. Fazzini. His statue may be a 'divine piece' and it may be worth...
...years he hoped to get his sight back and traveled around the country consulting eye specialists. But last November, resigned to his fate, he went to Morristown, N.J., got a fawn-colored seeing-eye dog, a boxer named Candy. Back in Denton, he started walking to his office every morning with Candy's assistance. Last week bad luck hit the sheriff again. He had no way of knowing, as he set out for work early one morning, that he was walking through a thick fog. A jeep driver, delivering newspapers, failed to see him until too late...
...Manhattan, the bright Italian sun seemed on fire; he was painting his skies a burning yellow. Sculptor Robert Becker of Far Rockaway, N.Y. was working in black screen, exhibited an abstraction that looked rather like a woman's fancy hat. Others had turned to Italy's fawn-colored countryside, painting delicately tinted landscapes and soft, expressionistic pictures of peasants and village priests. A favorite of the show: New Mexican Edward Chavez's flowing study of three white nuns' bonnets set against an abstract Florentine background...