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Other successful Congressional candidates are: Eighth District, Goodwin, Republican; Ninth District, Nicholson, Republican; Tenth District, Holz, Democrat; Eleventh District, O'Neill, Democrat; Twelfth District, McCormack, Democrat; Thirteenth District; Wigglesworth, Republican; and Fourteenth District, Martin, Republican...
...BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWAI, by Pierre Boulle (224 pp.; Vanguard; $3), is a superb, ironical study of a minor British Don Quixote who insists on fighting for code and country-even though it is yesterday's code of yesterday's officers and gentlemen. When Colonel Nicholson is captured by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore, he tries to hand over his pistol with an air of "quiet dignity," having earnestly practiced the gesture. But he is allowed no dignity at all: the Japanese order him to build a railroad bridge. Huffing and puffing about the Hague...
...British pavilion was dominated by another specialist in horror and violence: Francis Bacon (TIME, Oct. 19). Bacon's screaming, purple-robed cardinals and half-shaped machine gunners are crudely painted and unfeelingly colored, yet convincing, as blurred snapshots can be. Bacon was balanced by Ben Nicholson's abstractions, as dry and cold as a well-made Martini...
Back in England she found another great influence on both her life and her art. In 1930 she saw the work of British Abstractionist Ben Nicholson for the first time, an experience which "helped to release all of my energies for an exploration of free sculptural form." She fell in love with the painter as well as the paintings, and three years later she and Nicholson were married. It was about this time in her career that Sculptress Hepworth began to put holes in her carvings: "I . . . felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make...
Fresh Influence. The birth of the Nicholson-Hepworth triplets in October 1934 was soberly noted by Sculptress Hepworth: "It was a tremendously exciting event. We were only prepared for one child, and the arrival of three babies by 6 o'clock in the morning meant considerable improvisation . . ." She also tells what happened to her sculpture: "When I started carving again in November . . . my work seemed to have changed direction although the only fresh influence had been the arrival of the children. The work was more formal, and all traces of naturalism had disappeared, and for some years...