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...model. So he painted the w?omen who paraded through his mind, even as his strength ebbed away from slow starvation. During World War II, living in Paris, he felt so weak that he could not hold a brush, and did not paint at all. "I lived like a phantom." he says. "I wasn't broken, though. I went on living in the work I had done earlier." He searched for handouts and scoured the gutters for cigarette butts. After the war. with the help of new patrons ("a few people for whom it wasn't a drama...
...weeks before Oakland's Auditorium Theater opened its doors on the first Crusade session there, the Bay Area was in furor. The San Francisco Chronicle denounced Schwarz as a phantom hunter; the Oakland Tribune, whose editor, former Senator William Knowland, is a Schwarz admirer ("Dr. Schwarz is very intelligent and sincere"), backed the Crusade. There was an unholy row about a proclamation, carrying the names of 55 Bay Area mayors, that declared last week "AntiCommunism Week." When Schwarz critics protested, the mayor of Fairfax denied that he had ever signed the proclamation, the mayor of San Jose said that...
Children and adults who are up to 256 pages will find sophisticated whimsy in The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster (Epstein & Carroll; $3.95), which leads a vagrant young Ulysses on an unaccountable world detour to the Island of Conclusions. Jules Pfeiffer's illustrations fall between Thurber and Searle, but still enhance the best juvenile buy of the season...
...carrier in history: three squadrons of 680-m.p.h. Douglas A4D attack bombers that can carry H-bombs 1,000 miles; one squadron of 1,000-m.p.h. Chance Vought F8U interceptors; one squadron of North American A3J all-weather attack bombers; one squadron of the versatile, all-weather McDonnell F4H Phantom II, which last week set a new world's speed record for jet flight of 1,600 m.p.h. To launch one of its 100 planes every 15 seconds, the Enterprise will use four steam-operated catapults that are so powerful that they could hurl a Cadillac sedan a mile...
...survive. Limnologist Frey has discovered evidence of this in an increasing population of the red "blood" midge, a mosquitolike larva that can get along fine on far less oxygen than its more demanding green and brown brothers. In Douglas Lake, Frey's crew also brought up a few "phantom" midges, near-transparent larvae that can reach adult stage without any oxygen at all for long periods at a time. As the air supply decreases, the rate of muck deposited increases, eventually suffocating the lake in a tangle of vegetation...