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...Paris he began the climb that is familiar to so many painters. There was the dreary little hotel on the Rue Dauphine "where you cooked under a sign that said 'cooking prohibited.' " In 1952 he had his first Paris one-man show, and on its second day, a kindly bald-headed man dropped in and stayed for 20 minutes. The man was Pablo Picasso; his comment: "Well done." Though Downing still works each afternoon in a U.S. law office as a sort of office boy, his afterhours reputation has mounted steadily...
...critic talk: "His sculpture has the mysterious poetry and ferocity of nature and man at their most elemental." The critics received him so familiarly, in fact, that it came as a shock to realize that after all the years that Etienne-Martin has been around, this was his first one-man show...
Yoshikawa trained for his job for four years, studying everything on the U.S. Navy that he could get his hands on: Jane's Fighting Ships, U.S. books, brochures, newspapers, magazines (including United States Naval Institute Proceedings). Arriving in Honolulu, he set up his one-man operation. "I habitually rented aircraft at the John Rodgers airport...
Fidel Castro's one-man brain trust, Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, last week lectured 5,000 Red Chinese in Peking on how the Marxist blessings of Castro Cuba can be carried to country after country throughout the rest of Latin America. "It is," he said coldly, "through arming the people and smashing the puppet dictatorial regimes." In Washington a high U.S. official dealing with Latin America took a look at the endless crises besetting the hemisphere's governments and likened the situation to a "mountain of sugar melting under a fire hose...
...One-Man Boom. Cherubic Bill Tabler, 45, who is also chairman of the codes committee of the American Institute of Architects, is an old battler against outmoded building codes. Since 1946, when he began specializing in hotels, he has built $100 million worth of hotels around the world. His latest: the Ponce in Puerto Rico. He now has another $200 million worth in the works. His hotels are noted for being profitable, but to make them so he has had to combat a host of ancient building restrictions that do not recognize the virtues of modern cost-cutting materials...