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...only a small local exhibition, in Loughborough, in Britain's Leicestershire, but the critics agreed that it had one really notable painting. Figure 8, Skegness, the picture they singled out, showed a whirl of bright-colored roller-coasters against a sea blobbed with boats. Wrote one critic: "A fine specimen of modernism by the Barrow-on-Soar artist, Thomas Warbis ... A study of it will be all the more interesting in view of the present controversy in the art world concerning a famous artist's [Sir Alfred Munnings] attack on modernism." Added the Loughborough Echo: "Mr. Warbis...
...Loughborough lowbrows were less impressed with Skegness, and Alfred Warbis, father of the painter, shared their opinion that it was not much. A commercial artist by trade, the senior Warbis had two academic pictures in the show himself, was surprised to find them somewhat eclipsed by his son's work. Skegness, said Alfred Warbis, was "horrible-he's got the boats upside down, and he couldn't even sign his name; he had to print...
Died. Dr. Edward Loughborough Keyes, 75, topflight urologist and pioneer in sex education, one of the first U.S. specialists sent to Europe during World War I to fight venereal disease in the A.E.F.; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan...
...long ago Dr. Mont Follick, Labor member for Loughborough, interested his fellow M.P.s by demonstrating from the floor of the House a rotating toothbrush of his own invention. Last week Dr. Follick nearly won a victory for another invention, a system of simplified spelling...
Tory M.P. and Punch Editor Sir Alan (A. P.) Herbert wanted to know how Follick's phonetics would cope with the word water. "I think," said Herbert, "the Hon. Member for Loughborough proposes to spell it 'uoorter.' Some cockneys leave out the T and call it 'wa'er.' Americans say 'watter,' but how do the Scotsmen say it?" Glasgow's John Rankin volunteered: "We pronounce it whuskey...