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Three have come from battle-torn Korea, and one each from Latvia, and Lithuania. Other nations with just one representative are British Guiana, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraqu, Malaya, New Zealand, Turkey, and Venezuala...
...bridegroom had contracted malaria on a business trip to British Guiana, but no man to be deterred, he dosed himself with quinine (which was permanently to affect his optic nerves), took along a trained nurse and went on his honeymoon anyhow. He has since commented on what has turned out to be a devoted partnership. "My wife has been with me in everything I have done. I'd be very unhappy without her. She keeps me company." Right from the beginning, Lawyer Dulles, who still remembers his early days of 10? breakfasts at the Automat, was a busy...
...young Negro artist was startling and impressing London gallerygoers last week with a show of paintings as tangled and threatening as the jungles of his home colony, British Guiana. Painted in equatorial reds, yellows and greens, the canvases were packed with figures as sturdy as tree trunks, topped by faces with the wide, open, glowering eyes of frightened animals...
...artist, 27-year-old Denis Williams, was no loincloth primitive. The son of a textile manufacturer, he had gone to high school in Guiana's capital city of Georgetown, worked as a postal clerk. Five years ago some of his spare-time paintings caught the eye of a British Council representative, won him an art scholarship in England...
England's grey stone, gothic cathedrals and trim, bottle-green countryside, and the fleshless abstractions of modern European art, only roused Williams' nostalgia for Guiana. "I'd been too busy trying to understand European art and I'd overlooked the material at my own back door." Last year he went home to Guiana to take another look...