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...museum's president, Joseph B. Martinson, retired head of the coffee firm and a collector himself, acknowledges that the boundaries of folk art are hard to define. The artists range from the greatly talented Edward Hicks to a legion of traveling painters who could turn out a portrait in less than an hour for the price of $2.92. The freshness of the art. in fact, stems largely from its variety and degrees of sophistication. A wooden Columbia, all star-spangled-bannered, is a wonderfully flamboyant bit of jingoism. A large copper...
Died. Major General Eric Fisher Wood, 73, Pennsylvania architect who fought in the French. British and U.S. armies in World War I, and after the Armistice helped found the American Legion; after a long illness; in Bedford...
Died. William Warwick Corcoran, 78, an adventurous Washington. D.C. socialite who squandered his inheritance by the age of 30, joined the French Foreign Legion in 1916 and the U.S. Foreign Service in 1920, where later, as a wartime consul in neutral Sweden, he earned the U.S.'s highest civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom, for personal espionage that pinpointed Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket bases at Peenemünde; of a heart attack; in San Diego's U.S. Naval Hospital...
...usual vow to regain "sacred Arab rights in Palestine." The promise of mutual military support strengthens the regimes of both Saud and Hussein. By itself. Saud's ragtag soldiery would be of little use in a full-scale war, but Hussein's crack, British-trained Arab Legion is the best of all the Arab armies...
None of Pegler's legion of enemies turned out to be thornier than Correspondent Quentin Reynolds. After Pegler attacked Reynolds in print for "nuding along [with] a wench" and cowardice. Reynolds sued. In court in 1954, Reynolds' attorney, Louis Nizer, forced Pegler to admit that 130 statements he had made about Reynolds were untrue, and Reynolds was awarded $175,001. After that, the list of newspapers that carried Pegler gradually dropped from more than 200 to 140, and the columnist was tamed by heavy editing from Hearst...