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When Artist George Grosz was a youngster just learning to draw, in Germany 45 years ago, his painter mother gave him a piece of advice. Pointing to a picture of a well-fed monk holding a glass of wine aloft, she said: "George, when you can paint a glass of wine so that it looks as if you could pick it right out of the picture, then you'll be a real painter." Artist Grosz never forgot his mother's words, but it was a long time before he cared to follow them...
...sand-painting (Oct. 8, 1951), Farr decided he wanted to copy the pattern-on a hooked rug. About a year later he sent us the finished product, a 4-by-5-ft. rug. He had spent 320 working hours making enlarged drawings of the painting, transferring them to the monk's cloth used as a base for the rug, selecting colors and hooking the rug. Farr explains he has been hooking rugs as a hobby for 18 years. It all began, he says, when his wife was taking lessons in the craft. "I'll bet I could make...
...young American musicologist in France who arrives at a Benedictine monastery to study Gregorian chant. Author Griffin did the same thing, admits that Devil is at least an "intellectual history." His hero is no Roman Catholic, but by the rules of the order he must live as a monk so long as he stays at the monastery. This is not easy. His unheated stone cell is bitterly cold, the food is execrable, and he must share such work as cleaning the primitive lavatories. Moreover, his brain is filled with images of his Paris mistress, his nights made maddening by dreams...
...Hamilton ("Monk") Hackney, of Cold Saturday Farm, near Baltimore, practiced law, served as chief judge of the Baltimore Juvenile Court, retired in 1943, and is now one of the most successful U.S. cattle breeders (Aberdeen-Angus). Hackney has a daughter and two sons, one son at Princeton ('53). He particularly remembers Stevenson's Hudson Super-Six roadster, which, to be kept in high gear, had to have someone sitting beside the driver to hold the gearshift. This need for a companion in his car, Hackney feels, may have helped Stevenson gain sixth place, in a field...
...lanky senior attackman belted home a total of 18 goals and 17 assists in 12 games. Both figures were high for the team. Lloyd "Monk" Aiello, another attackman, finished second to Baldwin with 24 points. Ned Yost, the third member of the Crimson's starting attack trio, followed with 17 points...