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...Museum of Fine Arts.* His shows are thronged: 247,800 people went to a month-long Wyeth show in Buffalo last year. Last summer, when President Kennedy picked a painter to be among the first winners of the Medal of Freedom-the U.S.'s highest civilian honor-it was quite inevitable that the choice would be Wyeth. A fortnight ago, President Johnson presented it to him with a citation declaring that "he has in the great humanist tradition illuminated and clarified the verities" of life...
...online, "Chuckolytes" seem extremely, even strangely, devoted to you. The "Viva Chuck Todd" site says you "make sense of the senseless" and sells trucker caps in your honor...
Bugging Out. If you think those skittering roaches in your apartment are speedy, corral 'em and take them Down Under for the Story Bridge Hotel's annual Cockroach Racing World Championships in Brisbane. The race, in honor of Australia Day, which is like Americans' Fourth of July, takes place on Jan. 26. Bring your own cockroaches or purchase one from the hotel. (Hmm, I wonder how they have so many to sell...
With a jaw as broad as a ship's stern and a code of honor he was ready to defend with his bulging forearms and fists, Popeye was a model of self-reliance. But now the irascible cartoon character's identity has become embroiled in a long-running transatlantic controversy over a question he might have answered with a spinach-fueled punch: Who owns...
Richardson's group has signed up overseas supporters and planned a series of community dinners and a potluck in honor of the Inauguration. On a recent NFL-playoff Sunday, 11 members gathered in Richardson's brick-lined den to discuss ways to improve local schools. "When we as a group put a package together to send to Barack Obama, what should we ask for?" Richardson posed the question at the start of the meeting. The answers were varied and thoughtful. Why not encourage high school students to get passports to promote foreign travel? Why not sponsor overseas pen-pal programs...