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Another of Soutine's models was France's 19th century realist Gustave Courbet (TIME, Color Page April 30). who. said Soutine, "was able to express in the body of a woman the atmosphere of Paris. I want to show Paris in the carcass of an ox." This Soutine proceeded to do, hanging up a whole carcass in his studio, refreshing it periodically with a pail of blood from the butcher's shop until the stench of decay brought the police. But the resulting paintings today rank among Soutine's masterpieces. Soutine knew few moments of repose...
Carcass of an Ox. Like Van Gogh, Soutine attacked painting in a frenzy of inspiration, finished a canvas in a matter of hours, destroyed nine-tenths of what he painted by hacking it up with a knife. But oddly enough, Soutine had little sympathy with or liking for Van Gogh's work, claimed as his models such old masters as Rembrandt and Tintoretto, whom he did not remotely match in draftsmanship (though with the hot, jewellike quality of his color, he sometimes came close...
Leading the team is Captain Al Gordon, who leads in the 440. Wilson terms him a powerful determined runner, who is as strong as an ox. In the last meet, he did the quarter in 50 seconds flat, but injured his ankle in the process. It has just begun to mend. Backing him up is another fine runner, Walt Belenky...
...Hollywood script keeps close to the Broadway book. As the show begins, such assorted knouts, beer-needlers and pete-lousers as Nicely Nicely, Benny Southstreet, Harry the Horse and Angie the Ox are in their customary condition of p.m. panic. "The oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York" is about to sink. Its proprietor, one Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra), cannot raise the rent money for a suitably secluded backroom. Happens, however, he runs into Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando), a curly wolf at all games of chance, and lays the sucker a G he cannot make it to Havana...
20th Century-Fox Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). The Ox-Bow Incident, with Robert Wagner, Cameron Mitchell...