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...cash, collect another wife and take a third crack at art. By 1944, after a brief tour of duty in the French air force, Dubuffet was ready for his first one-man show. Already his paintings were dedicated to the proposition that the Western notion of beauty is a "meager and not very ingenious invention...
...They are the hapless and for the most part innocent victims of man's inhumanity to man: the 875,000 Arab refugees from Palestine and their opposite numbers, 200,000 Jewish immigrants, admitted to Israel but not yet absorbed. They huddle in tents and makeshift shelters, queue for meager rations. Last week Nature added to their misery, in a howling of winds and a downpour of rain such as the Middle East hadn't seen for a quarter-century...
Brown which a has won only once here since 1928, will be up, too: this is it Bruins' objective game. They already have a fine 14 to 12 triumph over Yale their credit, and in addition parlayed snowstorm and a stout defense to limit mighty Princeton to a meager 12 point Coach Alva Kelley's boys beat Rhod Island State, 20 to 12, for their other will...
Newsmen noted with professional cynicism that not one junket was scheduled for Korea-where accommodations are meager and entertainment small. But it was a measure of the U.S.'s changed role that nearly all the travelers were going on legitimate business. In 1951, the world had become a U.S. Congressman's proper province...
Ride into Steel. The town of Pigeon Run, where Ben Fairless was born, was a small cluster of sooty frame houses hard by the hillside coal pits where Fairless' father, David Williams, grubbed out a meager living for his wife and four children. Williams had such a hard time making ends meet that his wife's sister, Sarah Fairless, took five-year-old Ben to live with her in nearby Justus. In the front room of their house by the railroad tracks, her husband, Jacob Fairless, ran a grocery. The couple adopted Ben, and he took their name...