Word: petered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After years of wrestling his bull fiddle in & out of taxicabs, a Newark musician named Peter Ruggiero invented a collapsible bass viol which folds into a package no bigger than a saxophone case...
...penguin who "gets somewhat irritable over other peopie's muddles," and a fluffy, conceited little lamb, privately described by Annette as "possibly a bit of a bitch, but so young it doesn't matter." Other supporting players are Oswald the Ostrich, Willie the Worm, Sally the Seal, Peter the Pup, Poppy the Parrot, and two "rather common" field mice named Morris and Doris...
...Hopeful. Stocky, sandy-haired Peter Blume is an old hand at big things-which sell for four-and five-figure sums. One of his first was South of Scranton, a surrealistically weird picture of sailors soaring through the air under a crow's nest, which took first prize at the 1934 Carnegie International and now resides in the basement of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. His next was the Museum of Modern Art's Eternal City-in which a bilious, jack-in-the-box Mussolini rules over a ruined square. "I hope," says Blume fervently, "that...
Mermaid & Dragon. Runners-up to these leaders are Pixie Playtime, on Manhattan's WPIX, featuring Peter W. Pixie, assisted by a Mae West-like mermaid and a witch who tortures victims by telling them old radio jokes; Little Bordy, a puppet disc jockey; the Suzari Marionettes on ABC's The Singing Lady; Du Mont's woodenheaded Oky-Doky; and Mr. Do-Good and Judy Splinters, a pair of West Coast contenders. Du Mont's popular Small Fry Club, which has previously depended on animated cartoons, movies and interminable commercials, is next week adding to its cast...
...news on Manhattan's art-marketing 57th Street last week was a single picture. It had taken three years of planning and three more years of painting. Peter Blume's 6-ft.-wide canvas, which he called The Rock, was a complex allegory of building and decay, done with photographic, Technicolored precision...