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...time he quit school at 15, hardworking Derek Wiscombe had earned and saved enough money to buy out his former employer, an itinerant firewood dealer. During the next two years, with the help of an ancient wagon and an agreeable white mare named Gypsy, young Derek managed not only to get along, but to expand his business as well. Besides selling firewood in the Newcastle suburb of Jarrow-on-Tyne (guaranteed wagon-to-hearth delivery), he took on trucking jobs, even transplanted hedges...
Derek's own enthusiasm was unflagging, but aging Gypsy was not so durable. Some weeks ago, realizing that his old mare could no longer "pull the big loads...
...brother act was bred to the sport in the fox-hunting country around Monkton, Md. Like their father, who came from the green Irish horse county of Kilkenny, they were earning their living as show-horse trainers while in their teens. In 1950 some friends bought them an Irish mare that showed signs of speed, and they took their stable to the races. To eke out their small winnings. Pat, the smaller of the two (he carries a solid 160 lbs. on a 5-ft.-11-in. frame), peeled off poundage and learned the rough art of the jumping jockey...
...that it is unlisted in the 1957 edition of the authoritative Jane's Fighting Ships, passed through the Dardanelles under escort of three destroyers. Earlier, three Soviet submarines entered the Mediterranean by way of Gibraltar (and were turned over to Egypt). Russia was telling the world that Mare Nostrum means Russia's as well as NATO...
...Yunkers' "Composition II"--were unworthy choices. Jack Levine's "The Judge" (see cut at right) won the Grand Prize It is indeed a masterly work, executed in splotches of restrained browns and dull white that take shape only at a distance. Other exceptional works were George Grosz's "Night-mare," Mitchell Siporin's "The Gallery," and Max Weber's "Flute Player." William Kienbush received honorable mention for his competent "Coast of Baker Island." The sculpture choices, however, were poor on the whole; Isamu Noguchi's "The Ring" was by far the best item...