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...take a boy from the Midwest, from Ponca City, Okla., for instance. Teach him to speak Italian, then put him in an apartment that is 20 years older than his own country's government. Put this apartment in the center of Rome about a block from where Julius Caesar was killed, where from his studio window he can see the church in which the first act of Tosca takes place. Let him become close friends with several Italian families. Let him visit the major museums and cities of Europe, and live the last three months in Venice...
...Ponca City-born Robert Camblin thus reported his painter's dream come true, a year abroad with nothing to do but soak up the scenery, visit the museums and paint his head off. The results of his year in Italy-along with paintings by 59 other equally lucky artists-are on view this week at Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art. They were picked by the museum's new director, Lloyd Goodrich, from among the 194 U.S. artists who have worked abroad on U.S. Government (Fulbright) scholarships, paid in local currencies from the sale...
...been riding since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. Grandmother and Daddy gave me a saddle horse when I was six." By the time Charlie was eleven, and weighing a wringing-wet 45 Ibs., he had ridden his first winner in a quarter-horse race at Ponca City, Okla. Riding for his uncle, Clarence ("Shorty") Burr, young Charlie barnstormed all over Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Missouri in the rough & ready quarter-horse circuit...
...moments later they reappeared in sweaters, T-Shirts, two-toned jackets, and the like, and professed themselves to be the staff of the Ponca City U. Pontoon, come to put out an issue for and in place of the Lampoon
...issue was produced as if the editors of the Ponca City (Iowa) U. Pontoon had taken over the Lampoon as the College's purveyor of local humor. The issue was planned and written as a satire on the ways, habits, and sense of humor of Midwestern college students and their funny magazines...