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Reduced to agreement by a "most persuasive" letter from Amateur Painter Dwight D. Eisenhower, Amateur Painter Winston Churchill will permit 30 of his paintings (landscapes, seascapes, still lifes, interiors of famed houses) to be shown publicly early next year in a tour of U.S. cities for his first one-man show after 35 years at his favorite pastime...
Quos for Pros. John Joseph James Miller uncovers the celebrities like a one-man Confidential (whose contents he dismisses as "despicable"). His stuff ranges from the smutty to the delirious. Samples: "A bungled assassination attempt on the Queen of England was hushed up real fast." "Sophia Loren likes to stand in front of a mirror for hours admiring herself while wearing nooding." "Marlon Brando slugged the hairdresser at the beauty parlor he visits daily...
...tales of hardship and struggle, replete with flying spears, poisoned arrows, and many a gentle rebuke from Stanley's elephant gun. Before Stanley died peacefully in bed in 1904, he seemed compelled again and again to try to re-enact his first and greatest triumph. He was a one-man missing-persons bureau when he went after Emin Pasha (real name: Eduard Schnitzer), German-born governor of a British-controlled province in the Sudan. The Pasha had been trapped in the interior during the Mahdi's uprising, was even more reluctant to be found than Dr. Livingstone. Stanley...
...prove his mettle, he went to Tokyo last week for a one-man show, proceeded to paint the complete exhibition on the spot...
...This year 23 countries are participating, and a total turnout of 300,000 visitors is expected. There is plenty to see: Japanese porcelain. Scandinavian furniture, a geodesic dome designed by the U.S.'s R. Buckminster Fuller. But the show's foremost attraction by far, is a one-man pavilion celebrating the effervescent genius of Milan's own Gio Ponti...