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Sweet Smell of Success. In Olympia, Wash., wrung out after an all-night vigil at a maternity hospital, proud father John Arends bent to kiss his wife as she was wheeled from the delivery room, caught a lingering whiff of ether, passed out cold on the concrete floor, was rushed to emergency for eight stitches in his face, repairs to two broken teeth...
Within two weeks Schulman caught up with Langlie again as the governor was having a 7:15 a.m. breakfast in Olympia's Governor Hotel. With him Schulman had Contributing Editor Spencer L. Davidson, who wrote the Langlie cover story. Davidson was out to see the state for himself and meet its governor in person. "Oh, no-not again!" cried Langlie as he saw the newsmen. They stayed with him all day, winding up in the study of the governor's mansion, chuckling over album pictures of Langlie as a high-school student and baseball player...
...Manet fueled an artistic revolution that has shaped the course of modern art, for better or for worse, for nearly a century. At the core of the whole hurly-burly that rages through the art world today is the artistic proposition raised by Manet's saucy nude Olympia...
...fellow artists. Instead of presenting a suitably posed, blurred and idealized nude to the public gaze, Manet presented something like truth in the form of a naked French girl, nakedly translated into so many square inches of paint on canvas. As a straight representation of a scene. Olympia is obvious and commonplace. But as a composition in form and color, it is a masterpiece. With Manet, contemporary artists regained an all but forgotten viewpoint: that a picture can mean more than it represents, that a picture is an object to be judged by itself and not as a reference...
...China's gesture was a proclamation that it was ready to let go three of the 21 American P.W.s who had refused repatriation after the Korean truce and who now wanted to get out of Red China. Two of the P.W.s. Otho Bell of Olympia, Wash, and Lewis Griggs of Jacksonville, Tex., intended to come home to the U.S., although they knew that they might have to stand trial...