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...time to speak to a stranger or persuade a beggar to accept a gift. He was, of course, frequently taken advantage of; after his paintings began to sell, chiselers took up the habit of bringing obvious Renoir forgeries to his door, knowing that he would obligingly "correct"-that is. repaint-the canvases and give them back. The painter saw through the racket, or always claimed later that he did, but it was easier for him to paint a Renoir than become indignant at a swindler. The only irritants that instantly roused him to anger were those of modernity: traffic noise...
...into his big second-floor studio, and became a changed man. "There was a tragic preoccupation on his face," says Novelist Hélène Parmelin. Every day after lunch he would go up to his studio "like someone going up to the scaffold." Picasso was attempting to repaint in his own manner and to do an analysis on canvas of the picture he considers one of the world's greatest-Velásquez' Las Meninas...
Other events last week in the nation's struggle between racial rights and wrongs: ¶In Pittsburgh's Beechview section, where Negro Charles Miller's new home was smeared and smashed by race baiters, white neighbors finished a repair and repaint job with materials bought by the Board of Trade, Lions Club, American Legion and other civic groups. ¶ Georgia's Governor-elect Ernest Vandiver warned that he would close Atlanta schools if they were integrated by pending court cases, was met by Atlanta Mayor William Berry Hartsfield's demand that the city have...
...children play outside," the mother said, "because I have to keep an eye on them. You see, we haven't a yard, and it's a crowded street. We had to repaint the place ourselves; the rent is $85 a month. One of the kids has to sleep on the sofa...
Junior Painters. A complete kit for children to repaint their own toys or wooden furniture has been put on sale by Ampruf Paint Co. of New Jersey. Kit contains three small cans of nontoxic, quick-drying paint, brush and cleaner, painter's cap and gloves, sandpaper and mixing paddle. Cost...