Word: pavements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Irish-born Colleen Browning first saw Harlem 16 months ago, she was struck by "the long, straight streets, the litter, the children's drawings on the pavement, all the life against the dead-looking buildings." Since Colleen Browning is an artist, she set about painting what she saw, and last week she put 13 pictures on display in a Manhattan gallery. Harlem has been painted more expertly, but seldom with more sympathy or with a quicker eye for vivid detail...
...good example of Browning's new style is Seesaw, a group of children teeter-tottering dizzily up a perpendicular canvas. Another Browning trick: painting her Harlemites from above, so that the figures can be seen against a background of pavement litter and sidewalk doodles...
After the Fact. In St. Paul, Minn., Richard Starkweather, 19, managed to avoid injury when he fainted at the wheel of his car and came to a stop against a curb, fell out on to the pavement when a rescuer opened the door, and had to be rushed to a hospital for treatment of a head injury...
...When he heard a ghostly rapping in his car, he stopped and asked a resident for an explanation. Snapped John Novak: "There is no ghost, and no child was killed on this street. We have been hearing this knock for three years-ever since they put in the new pavement of cement slabs. In the daytime, the slabs expand in the sun's heat. In the evening, the concrete contracts, and the slabs wobble when a car goes over it." The edges grate on each other, and the noise echoes in the car. Grumbled Novak: "I swear that nearly...
...Hollywood, Md. five weeks ago, an eight-year-old boy named Jan Dockin was playing on the sidewalk when he fell and struck one of his upper front teeth (a permanent one) on the pavement. The tooth was knocked loose at the roots and driven up into the boy's jaw, almost out of sight. Jan's parents rushed him to a Washington, D.C. dentist, Dr. Edward J. Slattery...