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This week Albers' emotionless abstractions went on exhibition in two Manhattan galleries at once. They were composed mostly of straight lines and right angles, thinly painted in pure colors. Coming at a time when many abstractionists content themselves with syrup, tar, mustard, muscle and a soup spoon, Albers' reticent craftsmanship was a welcome change of diet-thin, but digestible...
Russians pay enormous taxes (hidden indirect sales taxes average 350%). In exchange they get an all-pervasive police system whose members are far better fed and clothed than the people themselves; medical care which is dubious by American standards (Welles came across Russian doctors whose cold remedy was mustard powder sprinkled in the patient's socks); and an education which takes 76% of all Russian children no farther than the fourth grade. Writes Welles: "The Kremlin . . . culls out the best children to form the elite governing class ... It makes workers of the rejects...
Most people wonder how he does it. Unlike the famous New York AC "whale" back around 1900, who used to have a dozen raw eggs (shells and all) dipped in mustard for breakfast every morning, Felton eats normally, claiming there is no special diet for hammer throwers today. He weighs only 178 pounds...
...Carte. In Calgary, Alberta, the Palliser Hotel's guests included: Dr. C. M. Bunn, I. Frankfurter, and J. C. Mustard...
Frank Treatment. In Decatur, Ill., Wallace Henricks and Robert & Richard Hodges were arrested for carefully spreading a neighbor's car with mustard...