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...KENNETH MOORE Norristown...
...started his political career in his teens, driving voters of Norristown's old third ward to the polls in a buggy. In 1940 he was a sergeant-at-arms at the Republican Convention, a delegate in 1944, an alternate in 1948. As a convention veteran, he knows the emotional crises that can beset the delegate's mind. "Let us suppose that one man has 560 votes and the other 550. That's when you have to keep cool. You can't be huff-huffed into a wrong decision...
...Norristown (wrongly identified as Conshohocken in the exhibition catalogue), ten miles from Stuempfig's Chestnut Hill home, is far from romantic to the unpracticed eye. But by painting it from a vantage point overlooking the Schuylkill River, Stuempfig has thrown new light on its smoke-darkened silhouettes. Using a mixed technique of tempera with oil glazes on heavy canvas, Stuempfig gradually built a spacious river town veiled in a warm and somehow sad early morning dimness. The neo-classical composition recalls Corot's Italian landscapes, and its distant, county-courthouse dome might almost be mistaken for St. Peter...
Sydney P. Clark, Jr., R.D. No. 4, Norristown, Penn., and a graduate of the Pomfret School, Pomfret Conn...
Warminster Military Academy was founded last fall when the Balleses bought a farmhouse near Norristown. Parents were stupid or careless enough to entrust their offspring to this institution. Tuition: $1,100 a year plus some $5 a week for laundry plus $74 for a uniform...