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Camille Bombois had been a wrestler in sideshows. When he quit the muscle business to become a printer's helper, he took up painting as a hobby. Years later his bright, primitive paintings began to attract some mild attention in the Paris art world (TIME, Oct. 27, 1947). Most of his primitive-style pictures were laboriously modeled from photographs. But he peddled enough of them on street corners to give up his printing job and paint fulltime...
When Poet George William Russell was a young man in Victorian Dublin, he wrote a philosophic article under the pseudonym "Æon." The printer mangled it, and Æon came out Æ. For the rest of his life, Russell wrote under that diphthong. Outdistanced as a poet by such contemporaries as Thomas Hardy and William Butler Yeats, Æ culled through his verses not long before his death (in 1935) and selected 124 that he hoped he might be remembered for. Last week his Selected Poems achieved the semiclassic permanence of republication in the Golden Treasury Series (Macmillan; $1.25), along with...
Misery, it seems has had a cathartic effect on the Advocate. Buffeted and bruised by scissors-and-paste contributors and an overly-genteel printer who couldn't spell, the magazine has emerged from a bleak Winter bright in cover and content. In fact, the May issue is both balanced in material and extremely readable as well...
...spite of what the printer may say, seekers of blasphemy or eroticism will find lean pickings in the current Advocate. The three stories each boast at least one attempted or completed seduction, but by modern standards they are quite tame...
...president of the Advocate, announced that because Beecroft wished to impose certain censorship on the Advocate, if any future issues were printed at the Warren Press, the editors of the Advocate had no choice but to drop the Warren Press. "We don't intend to be censored by any printer," Kelly said in announcing the decision...