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Jack Smith is a handsomely bearded young (26) Yorkshire artist who firmly believes that life is grim and men are heroic just to live it. For his second one-man show, on exhibition last week at London's Beaux Arts Gallery, Artist Smith produced 15 examples of what he calls life's "acts of heroism." His big, life-size painting of a baby taking its first step beams with self-conscious bravery; his old lady in a wicker chair, a sort of off-key Whistler's mother, is the essence of enduring patience. Even his cadaverous Skid...
...national service with the Royal Air Force signalmen, he moved to London to study on a government grant, later won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art. During a jobless period in 1952 before he began to teach at the Bath Academy of Art, he held his first one-man show in London. His subject matter, working-class domesticity, was as commonplace as his own name. The critics noted it with mild approval...
...darkly: "An extremely bad situation." Said Woltman: "Evidently it wasn't bad enough for Mr. McCarthy to do anything about it, but he did cash in on headlines." < At Fort Monmouth, McCarthy held "press briefings" to give his own version of the secret testimony about "espionage" at closed, one-man hearings. But "when the time came to make good on the charges," said Woltman, "the Senator ducked out." McCarthy also took credit for the suspension of 35 employees, although the Army had been investigating these cases (actually 36) for months beforehand. Said Woltman: "All. . . denied the Communist charges...
...drew plans for a one-man submarine and a "flying carriage." In Sweden's House of Nobles he spoke brilliantly in favor of trade, liquor-control laws, and the decimal system. He was a physicist who anticipated Kant and Laplace in the nebular hypothesis, and a paleontologist far ahead of his time. His contributions to science included a modern theory of molecular magnetics, a system of crystallography, a mercury air pump, and a method of determining longitude at sea from the moon...
Born. To Victor Borge, 45, Danish-born pianist-wit whose Comedy in Music has broken all Broadway records for one-man shows (ninth month, heading toward 300 performances), and Sarahbel Roach Borge, 34, his second wife: a son. Name: Victor Bernhard. Weight...