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Died. Louis J. Caldor, 73, the art collector who discovered one of America's most popular primitive artists, the late Grandma Moses; near Clarksburg, Md. In 1938, Caldor, an engineer by profession, noticed some of her paintings among the jellies and doilies in a country drugstore window in upstate New York. He bought them all at an average price of $4 apiece. Two years later he helped the 80-year-old widow arrange for the first one-woman showing of her rural scenes in a Manhattan art gallery-paintings which eventually sold for as much...
...judge's decision is largely the result of a one-woman campaign launched by Lettie Gay Carson, a onetime newspaper reporter who has ridden the Harlem Valley line of the Penn
...sense, Matina Horner has run a one-woman show this past year, albeit inconspicuously in comparison to her predecessor, Polly Bunting. It has been a year of beginnings on many fronts. And it remains to be seen whether the momentum leading toward merger has really been halted or whether it has merely been channeled into areas which are preconditions for merger. How the theory translates into practice is the biggest question now facing Radcliffe...
...group of 30 had been organized to travel to Florence, Italy, for my one-woman art show. We landed at Fiurnicino three hours late and customs impounded 24 of my paintings. We finally left for Florence. The paintings never left the airport because of various strikes...
...Caboose not only resents the "proud and powerful" male-chauvinist engine; she hates the noise and the jolting and the smoke, and longs instead to become "something quiet and simple like a lovely elm tree." Eventually Katy flies off the rails to lodge between two tall hemlocks, a permanent one-woman commune for birds and squirrels...