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...shirt that has just come back from the laundry. Then he smears it over with a neutral color. After that he holds a brush above it and lets some house paint drip. Finally, he sprinkles the whole affair with gold or silver powder. The result: a series of Jackson Pollock-like abstractions, about as modern as modern can be. Renny's matter-of-fact name for them: "drip paintings...
Orphans of the Storm Coast Guard headquarters in Boston braced for battle as the tanker Fort Mercer, 29 miles off Cape Cod's Pollock Rip lightship, sent out an S O S. The worst nor'easter of the winter was burying New England in gale-blown snow and raising pure white hell offshore. Blinding snow, 50-ft. waves, and winds up to 90 miles an hour smashed the distressed tanker as the Coast Guard cutter Yakutat and the Navy cargo ship Short Splice hunted her. Just after noon, she broke...
Edward A. Pollock, 28, a Manhattan bank clerk, collects TIME covers as a hobby. Before he puts them into his scrapbook, however, he sends them out to the cover subjects for autographs. "I was always attracted by the covers," he says, "and I thought it would make an interesting collection for my young...
...Pollock started his collection with the first issue of 1951, was able to get 39 autographs out of the year's 48 cover personalities. Those of which he is proudest are India's Nehru, Generals MacArthur, Eisenhower and Ridgway, Man of the Year Mossadegh, France's late General de Lattre and Warren Austin. Among those who turned him down were Churchill, Truman, Egypt's King Farouk, Argentina's Peróns and Vasily Stalin...
...Pollock usually tries at least twice for each autograph, but quit after one try with Stalin's son. He sent the cover to the Russian embassy in Washington, enclosing a forwarding envelope with $4 worth of airmail and special-delivery stamps. At the embassy, Vasily Stalin's name was crossed out, Pollock's written in, and the letter was returned, using up the $4 in postage...