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...Guinness Book of World Records and called on Drexel executives to return the dough. In Washington committees in both the House and the Senate are planning hearings this week that will explore the issue. "It may be that the payments themselves rendered Drexel insolvent," says attorney Stuart Hirshfield, who represents a group of Drexel's creditors. "It just doesn't seem right...
...John Hirshfield and Matt Simmons both won two bouts in the epee...
...night before he died of a heart attack, Primitive Hirshfield was full of high hopes for his next picture, an Adam and Eve. Said he: "It is going to be so outstanding that I don't need any animals...
...worst blunder," a "combination of preciosity and of the hunting down of butterflies with the aid of caterpillar tractors." His simple compositions seemed frozen into place by the fussy discipline of an old man. But to a public weary of modern art's chaotic ugliness, Hirshfield's childlike craft and gay colors were refreshing. Picasso said, just like that: "He's a great artist...
...Hirshfield also had a high regard for his own work. He painted ten hours a day, every day. His work was as doggedly patterned as herringbone cloth. He never used a model for his nudes, explaining that at his age he "couldn't very well bring a nude woman in and paint her. It wouldn't look right." Collector Sidney Janis, Hirshfield's discoverer, thinks that Stage Beauties with Angels (see cut) grew out of a burlesque-show memory. Hirshfield was always having model trouble. For his Lion painting he tried the zoo, pictures at the public...