Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them I'm finger painting," said veteran Newspaper Cartoonist Edmund Duffy when someone recently tried to invade his comfortable retirement at the end of a long and lustrous career. In 1948, after 24 award-studded years (three Pulitzer Prizes) with the Baltimore Sun, Duffy left to try a hand at magazine cartooning for the Saturday Evening Post, drifted briefly back to newspapers-New York City's transitory Star and the Long
...passing Sunday-school teacher that Dallas ever had. For when he is not teaching the youngsters at the Lovers' Lane Methodist Church, bullnecked, rangy (6 ft. 3 in., 195 Ibs.) Don Meredith plays quarterback for Southern Methodist. Last week Meredith had a painfully sprained thumb on his passing hand and a charley horse to boot when he faced tough Texas Tech. But in the fourth period, with the score tied 7-7, Meredith faded with the ball, twice wiggled free of tacklers, and floated a 31-yd. touchdown pass into the end zone. As S.M.U. went...
They walked onto the Carnegie Hall stage hand in hand, as they had so often in the past. At first, in the Brahms Sonata in D Minor, they played a little tentatively, feeling their way with care. But by the time they got to Bartok's Sonata No. 1, the violin was soaring with impassioned assurance and the piano was spinning a lacy web of sound. After a fine performance of Beethoven's Sonata in A Major, the two performers joined hands again to take their smiling bows. Occasion: a joint recital of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin...
...hover weightlessly in luminous space. "We are not trying to show nature effects in sunlight, but paintings," Sweeney stated. "This is the most spectacular museum interior architecturally in this country. But my job is to show off a magnificent collection to its fullest." Mrs. Frank Lloyd Wright, on hand for the opening, doubted that her husband would have shown up, even if he had been alive. "He was too great an artist," she stated firmly, "to forgive the slightest transgression in a creative work...
...year ago short, lank-haired Manabu Mabe was a familiar but furtive peddler on the streets of Brazil's metropolitan (pop. 3,650,000) Sao Paulo. His wares: his own hand-painted ties, priced from 85^ to $1.15. "It was embarrassing and illegal," Mabe confesses. "I had no peddler's license, but they sold fast." Only at night did Manabu Mabe indulge his private obsession, squandering his money on oil and canvases, sitting up, often until dawn, to paint large, calligraphic abstractions. Suddenly this year the whirlwind of artistic success sucked 35-year-old Manabu Mabe into...