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...Vatican has long conceded that the popular printing press can outrun any censor's pencil. Since 1900 the church has banned only 255 books, most of them theological works. (Best-known contemporaries on the Index: Philosopher Benedetto Croce, Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre.) Responsibility has been shifted to local bishops and, in the last analysis, to the individual to decide whether a particular book can injure the reader's faith. Explains a Vatican book censor: "People have different spiritual allergies...
...cannot be shunted around as easily as reporters and photographers can. But RCA may soon help overcome that. It is working on a one-man, portable camera-transmitter that weighs only 53 Ibs., hopes to make a TV cameraman almost as mobile as a reporter with copy-paper and pencil...
Pantomime. On his fourth day in camp, the authorities sat Janos down before some sheets of blank foolscap and by gestures urged him to draw. Janos threw his pencil to the floor and ran away. Time after time the camp officers coaxed him back with lumps of sugar. Gradually, as thin fingers traced deliberate line after line on the yellow paper, a crude autobiography in hieroglyphics began to take shape...
...gave up such experiments as his stroboscopic Nude Descending a Staircase in favor of chess, has scarcely touched a brush to canvas since. Last week, along with witty reminders of his bumptious youth, he displayed his first artistic creation in 15 years, a tiny pencil drawing of a chessman. Said Marcel, who lives in Manhattan: "I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art-and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position...
Visits to "grand houses," where a valet would unpack his luggage, made Chesterton uneasy. Neither he nor the valet could ever be sure what would turn up in his bags and pockets-a green glass bottle stopper and a horse pistol on one occasion; on another, "several stubs of pencil, a paperbacked murder story, some colored chalks, and a small cigar or two." Nor did anyone know what he would bring to a lecture: a Dutch audience that flocked to hear him talk on Dickens went away much enlightened on the subject of Browning...