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That Painter Calcagno remains emphatically from San Francisco is demonstrated by his semiabstract paintings, saturated with rich California earth tones and the shifting, fog-ridden horizons of the Pacific Coast. Says Calcagno of his European adventures: "With the death of Matisse, the great, great tradition of French painting is about worked out. There are still major figures like Picasso and Braque, but they are no longer dealing with the immediate thing. The younger painters are seeking a way out. Some of them think...
...Wall Street the gloom hung thicker than London fog. Most knew that the specialists had bought all they could-stretching their financial resources close to the breaking point. Brokers felt that if Ike had taken a turn for the worse on Monday, many a specialist would have gone under...
...climax came one day when the canoes were plowing through rain, fog and high, rolling waves near the mouth of the Columbia. For an instant the mist parted, and the men sighted the Pacific ("O! the joy," Clark noted). On the Oregon shore, they built a salt cairn and wintered. Clark cut his name on a pine tree and added (in case they didn't make it back): "By Land from the U. States in 1804 & 1805." They celebrated Christmas and New Year's among coastal tribes with flattened heads, who made life miserable by pilfering their supplies...
Many competent authorities believe that the Navy's great carriers are too vulnerable to venture in wartime near an enemy-held coast. Then the jet sea bombers, say their admirers, would come into their own. In fog-dimmed inlets dr palm-fringed lagoons, they could rendezvous with the submarines-and take off with their loads of H-bombs before the enemy realized that they were around...
...Taking his time at the start. King Ranch's hefty brown colt High Gun splashed from behind in mud and fog to win the Sysonby Handicap, so-called "Race of Champions," at Belmont Park. Second by a mud-splattered head: Main Chance Farm's Jet Action. Third: Belair Stud's three-year-old champion, Nashua, running for the first time against older horses. At Atlantic City, Irish-bred Blue Choir, a four-year-old colt, ridden by leading U.S. Jockey Willie Hartack. won the third running of the $104,600 United Nations Handicap. Second: Fox-Catcher Farms...