Word: patches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FLORENCE PATCH WHITE...
...goes hungry. The bear on the other hand finds plenty to eat -berry bushes and beehives can't run away. And while the cub is getting honey, the pup is getting stung. At night, when the pup settles down for some shut-eye on a nice soft patch of grass, the bear climbs the nearest tree. Dawn finds the dog's muzzle sleeping blissfully on the grass, while his rump, caught in the leash, sleeps fitfully about 18 inches off the ground...
...crudely, the burglars gave Matisse's Woman at the Fountain a hole in the head, tore a new twist in a cubist Picasso, Lady with a Hat, made off with four-fifths of a Miro, and, in seizing Leger's Composition with Three Sisters, left behind a patch of the girls' background. Ignorantly mistaking a paper strip of a Picasso collage for the whole work of art. they tried to rip it off and ruined a work valued at more than $100,000. They got away with six Picassos, two Legers, a Miro and a Dufy. Loss...
...refugee from a Charles Addams cartoon. The Duke's wrestler sports a checkered jacket and straw hat. Le Beau, complete with pseudo-French accent, wears white shoes and a monocle, a tie pin and boutonniere. the first lord is in a batik-jacketed tuxedo, and wears a black eye-patch out of a Hathaway shirt ad. And Touchstone has a patchwork jacket and pink shirt...
...Adios Butler, world's fastest pacer (TIME, June 30), gave his victory-jaded fans something extra to cheer about in last week's one-mile Dan Patch Pace at Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway. The Butler breezed home 3½ lengths in front on the half-mile track, tied Bye Bye Byrd's 1959 world record...