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Ever since the "Ashcan" painters of the early igoos went looking for Beauty in alleys and gutters, U.S. artists have prided themselves on smoking the lady out of the most unexpected hiding places. Last week in a Manhattan gallery, Painter James Fosburgh smoked her out again. He had discovered her in a dirty clothes hamper, a rumpled pillow, a tavern jukebox. "Anything can be beautiful if you bother to see its beauty," says Fosburgh. "Even a hamper can be a vision of the world." He makes a handsome still life from a pair of discarded work gloves or a coffee...
Died. Mrs. Bess Fosburgh Kaiser, 64, wife of Tycoon Henry J. Kaiser (ships, cars, aluminum, steel); of heart disease; in Oakland, Calif. She met Kaiser in 1905, when he was making a bare living developing snapshots, married him two years later. She made most of her husband's business trips with him, camped in tents during his early days as a building contractor. After she became ill 18 months ago, Kaiser stuck close to their Oakland apartment, slept on a cot outside her room...
Lieut. Colonel Edward K. Thompson, head of our Picture Bureau before the war, holds the Legion of Merit... Writer Hugh Fosburgh (now 2nd Lieut. Fosburgh) has the Air Medal with two Oak Leaf clusters...and Captain David Walter Allard of our Cleveland staff has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the Purple Heart and the Croix de guerre with palm for "extraordinary heroism in action." (Allard volunteered to swim the Seine under heavy fire to scout out German positions - was wounded getting back - "despite great pain gave detailed accounts of the enemy disposition that contributed greatly to the success...
Missfit. In Camp Edwards, Mass., 280-lb. Sergeant Louis Fosburgh ordered a pair of summer pants, size 46, received a smartly tailored WAC skirt, size...