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Etiquette. In St. Louis, burglars who stole a safe containing $800 from the Diamond Cleaners shop telephoned Owner James E. Frick for the combination, so they wouldn't damage the strong box getting it open...
Fosburgh is a late starter: he is having his first one-man show at 41. After musing through galleries and lecturing for four years at Manhattan's Frick Museum on everything from Chinese ceramics to Boucher, he finally decided to turn painter. Wartime service as an Army glider pilot held him up for five years. Then he spent another year experimenting with blobs and squiggles: "I didn't know what I was doing, and finally I decided I wasn't going to find out, so I chucked the whole lot into the fireplace...
...Though broad boulevards have been hacked through the city to channel the swelling flow of workers and shoppers, traffic congestion gets worse & worse. Sáo Paulo has 15,000 industrial plants and millionaires' mansions such as the U.S. has not seen since the days of Carnegie and Frick. It has burgeoning suburbs of bougainvillea-clad bungalows for the new middle classes, and white-collar workers' cottages along streets that peter out into raw slashes in the red earth...
Salzburg's Director Hermann Aicher, in the U.S. with his group for the first time, has been puppeteering Mozart and assorted fairy tales since 1926, when he took over the business from his father. Aicher, 48, his wife Elfriede, their daughters Frick, 23, and Gretl, 22, run the show with three assistants, design the puppets, costumes and sets for the 27-ft. stage. The dolls (adult size: 3-½ ft.) are more supple and lifelike than the popular U.S. or Howdy Doody brand; Cupid shoots arrows, musicians fiddle, puppet birds fly, angels flap their wings, flowers open, horses prance...
Tenley Albright, 16, of Newton Center, Mass., a blue-eyed blonde who did her practicing in leopard-skin tights, but put on a more conservative black & red outfit for the competition. A Boston Skating Club protegee of Old Pro Willie Frick, willowy (5 ft. 6 in., 120 Ibs.) Tenley Albright recovered well enough from a 1947 attack of polio to be runner-up in this year's nationals...