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Illustrations for the story are by Russell Hoban, 36, who is such a Salinger fan that he and his wife named two of their daughters after Salinger characters, Esmé and Phoebe. In painting how Zooey, Franny, Mrs. Glass and Holden look to him, Hoban was fearful of violating "their private rights to exist in the reader's mind," and tried to be scrupulous to the author. "Salinger, I think, is a man without eyelids," says Hoban. "All of his material comes to him so painfully; it costs so much to write, more than anyone else who comes...
THIS week Artist Russell Hoban, 36, joins the ranks of fourscore artists who have painted TIME covers. Though he also paints industrial subjects, Hoban is best known for his sports pictures, such as this week's of Oscar Robertson. Watching "the Big O" shoot 13 baskets in Syracuse, Hoban concluded: "He makes it look easy-nothing heroic." But in his paintings, says Hoban, "I try to go for a heroic quality. You could take the basketball out of Robertson's hand and put a sword in and he's in a classic stance for a soldier. What...
Contrived & Documentary. That realism is not necessarily all is illustrated by the retrospective portfolio of photographs (see pp. 59-66). Of the twelve shown, at least half are contrived rather than documentary. Tana Hoban used a professional model for her sun-splashed shot of a little girl. Its lighting is reminiscent of the impressionistic paintings of Renoir et al., and its atmosphere is that of a powder puff. Aaron Siskind's closeup of peeling paint is not supposed to look like paint alone; it is a faintly sinister pattern reminiscent of easel pictures by the German surrealist Max Ernst...
Three of the students, Peter R. Fisher '54, George M. Osgoodby, and Eben W. Keyes '54, are undergraduates here. Corman and Charles C. Hoban, a senior at Dartmouth, were visiting Osgoodby on the weekend of the incident; they arrived in Cambridge last night to attend the hearing...
Only four of the students, Peter R. Fisher '54, George M. Osgoodby '52, Eben M. Keyes '54, and Charles C. Hoban (Dartmouth '51) were able to appear in court; counsel for the defense requested a postponement until James C. Corman, the other Dartmouth senior implicated, is released from the Cambridge City Hospital where he is being treated for body and head injuries. His condition was reported as "fair...