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...white-haired road mender from Birmingham, Alfred Stannard, had been lucky too. His tiny cottage is crammed with 20 paintings that he has been collecting for 34 years. In a junk shop one day last summer, Stannard had noticed an unimpressive little oil, a landscape set in a fine Gothic frame. He took it home, started scraping away the landscape with his penknife, and came face to face with Henry VIII (see cut). He had rescued from oblivion Henry's earliest known portrait...
...scheduled dissolution of the Italian Constituent Assembly this month, which would have been followed by general elections in the fall. The Communists were sure they could lick De Gasperi, or at least deflect his energies from the desperate business of government. But last week the Assembly decided to junk the schedule and to postpone general elections for at least six months. This gave De Gasperi a vital chance to show Italians that he could run and rebuild their country without benefit of Communist assistance-if he could...
Coulter knew that he had a tough job ahead to get the T.P. & W., which had been on its way to the junk heap, back in shape. "We've got it going now," said he last week. "But I feel that the railroad is still on the spot...
...race driver himself, Designer Moore picked his two drivers carefully: he knew that one slip on race day would twist a Moore car into junk. His choices: 1) rabbit-faced, mustached Mauri Rose, a speedway veteran; 2) Bill Holland, a dirt-track expert who had never driven in Indianapolis' famed...
Blakelock, self-taught, had spent most of his life fanatically painting bigger, better landscapes, and trying to support his family in the slum-infested fringes of Manhattan by peddling the pictures to framers, Third Avenue junk dealers, and auction houses for a few dollars apiece. Intermittently, his work was exhibited at the National Academy; but conventional critics of the 1870s and '80s did not like the misty, moody landscapes-empty of human life-which Blakelock did best. Storytelling in painting was the fashion...