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...logical mind," said Thomas Hart Benton, who was Pollock's teacher at Manhattan's Art Students League from 1929 to 1931, "but he was a very fine colorist." Perhaps he learned his color and texture from the land, when, he worked as a surveyor's helper; in any case, he learned drawing from anatomy up. He borrowed Benton's feel for the swirly sensuousness of oils, turned to the writhing images of the Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco, loved the sinuous drapery of baroque art. But his greatest influence came from childhood days...
...West Virginia Wesleyan ('58) on a family income of $1,090. She majored in library science, got a B average, earned a master's at Western Reserve, and is the science librarian of Oberlin College. Ragan A. Henry, 29, son of a Kentucky carpenter's helper, came from a family with an income of $3,000. He won $4,600 in scholarships at Harvard, graduated magna cum laude ('56), went on to Harvard Law ('61), is a Philadelphia lawyer...
...INCREDIBLE JOURNEY. To brighten the season, Santa's Helper Walt Disney presents Tao the cat, Bodger the bull terrier and Luath the Labrador retriever making their way home across 250 miles of rough Canadian terrain, and straight into the affections of the young-at-heart...
Foremost among these is Bill Moyers, only 29 but an on-again, off-again Johnson aide for nearly a decade. After two years at North Texas State College in Denton-where he was twice elected class president-Moyers joined Johnson's Washington staff as a vacation-time helper in 1954, turned in an impressive performance. At summer's end he went home, acquired a journalism degree at the University of Texas while working part time for Lady Bird's television station in Austin...
...somewhat Galsworthian catastrophe forces George to the first commitment of his life. His cheerful young niece is got with child by, of all things, a plumber's helper. He decides he must help her. He concludes that the only way is to kill himself so that the girl will get his small nugget of otherwise untouchable capital. But he drinks too much and his ten-gin resolve to die dissolves into a sentimental 20-gin binge...