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Andrew Wyeth, 31, is one of the narrowest of young U.S. artists-and one of the most widely respected. He is a portraitist who paints only his friends, and a landscapist who portrays only two localities. His new pictures, on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery last week, owed nothing to the prevailing distortions of Paris: they were in the straightforward, realistic U.S. tradition of Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper. Bleak as a December dawn, they seemed a startling contrast to the cheerful, crop-headed young man who had painted them...
Last week Premier Robert Schuman had the narrowest squeak of his three-months career as France's first minister. Annoyed by criticism of one of his deflation measures, doughty M. Schuman had asked for a vote of confidence. He won-by 23 votes...
...Walter Reuther could best have used a boost from Murray, he got a shove instead. What actually happened in the hectic U.A.W. presidential race of 1946 was that Murray had endorsed bumbling R. J. Thomas, stooge of the union's left-wingers. Reuther had won only by the narrowest of margins, and the left-wingers had captured all the union's other top jobs, plus control of the executive board. Phil Murray had gloated: "Reuther has been contained...
Peale's economy consisted in devoting all his limited strength to the narrowest possible problems. His masterpiece, After the Bath, painted two years before he died in 1825, is a bath towel hanging on a line...
...neophyte singles oarsman must spend at least ten minutes on the practice rigs before he is allowed to take the safest of three available single-blade boats at Weld--the wherry. The wherry is the widest of the three, measuring 19 inches in width. The single scull is the narrowest at 12 inches and in between is the compromise--or comp--at 14 inches...