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Huddled in the dark with his sketchbook and his Venus HB pencil at a thousand out-of-town tryouts, Al Hirschfeld has deftly cartooned the casts of Broadway-bound plays for the Sunday New York Times since 1925. And with his distinctive, fine-lined style, Hirschfeld continues to be the foremost practitioner of his trade, a long-lived original with nary a successor in sight. Turning 80 next June, he will be the subject of a number of planned retrospectives, including a major show next spring at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum. Despite all his years on the aisle...
...were, is the computer. And the child is the teacher." Giving children this kind of control can sometimes have dramatic effects. In an experimental program at the Getting School for Handicapped Children in Boston, one 17-year-old suffering from cerebral palsy who could barely hold a pencil, much less write coherent English sentences, blossomed during 2½ years of Logo instruction. He now writes papers at the college freshman level and majors in computer science at the University of Massachusetts...
...tenure of Martin Kent, one of some 20 editors who have moved through the revolving door since Founder William Wilkerson opened the paper on the site of his former haberdashery in 1930. Says a onetime staffer: "Until Kent came, they mostly took press releases and perhaps pencil-edited them a little and slapped them onto the front page. They would not even call to check items out." Kent departed in June after a power struggle with Managing Editor Cynthia Wilkerson, complicated by the repeated interventions of her mother, Owner Publisher and Editor in Chief Tichi Wilkerson, the founder...
...future confinements, but it is also a rude distortion of a young body striving to know itself. At one point the young man stands naked before a mirror and attempts to sketch his reflection. But "he found it very difficult to draw himself without drawing in the paper and pencil too." The result is a picture of his body drawing his body...
...shops have largely disap peared, because many people cannot afford to buy meat at the new prices. Virtu ally all necessities are rationed: one bar of soap, a half-liter of vodka and 3 lbs. of sugar per person per month. This fall, pre schoolers will be allotted one pencil, one eraser and one paintbrush for the entire year...