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International Understanding: The Manchester Guardian's U.S. Correspondent Alistair Cooke, whose Letter from America broadcasts to BBC have made him a "one-man intercultural movement...
Fosburgh is a late starter: he is having his first one-man show at 41. After musing through galleries and lecturing for four years at Manhattan's Frick Museum on everything from Chinese ceramics to Boucher, he finally decided to turn painter. Wartime service as an Army glider pilot held him up for five years. Then he spent another year experimenting with blobs and squiggles: "I didn't know what I was doing, and finally I decided I wasn't going to find out, so I chucked the whole lot into the fireplace...
...between it and the station's transmitter. Moreover, even getting to the scene of the news is often a problem, since TV camera crews cannot be shunted around as easily as reporters and photographers can. But RCA may soon help overcome that. It is working on a one-man, portable camera-transmitter that weighs only 53 Ibs., hopes to make a TV cameraman almost as mobile as a reporter with copy-paper and pencil...
...devoted his evenings to reading books on oil-painting technique and experimenting with brush and canvas. By 1950, he had taught himself enough to win the $1,000 first prize at the California State Fair. Last week 40-year-old Joe Oneto (rhymes with no veto) got his first one-man show in San Francisco's Palace of the Legion of Honor...
...Since 1945? she has kept house for him on the French Riviera, served as model for dozens of portraits, borne him two children, Claude (four) and Paloma (three). In Paris last week, Franchise made a bid for a bit more attention in her own right: she put on a one-man show of her own paintings for the first time...