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Trout & Needlepoint. In his rare moments of repose. Beedle Smith was a warm man of catholic tastes. He was an admitted raconteur, a passionate hunter and trout fisherman (he made his own skillfully fashioned rods), a talented chess and bridge player, and a voracious reader who wolfed Rider Haggard and Joseph Conrad along with the military classics. He was also an unabashed needlepoint craftsman and the grower of prize roses. But it was his job, and especially his military job, that always absorbed him. His merciless schedule eventually broke Smith's health. Last week Beedle Smith died...
...shop in 1905 in an empty Dresden butcher's store. A loner by instinct, he quit them after a year and a half, afraid that togetherness would dilute his grim, self-imposed sense of artistic mission. Similarly, he shunned the trail-blazing Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) circle, although he had the admiration of both Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, who called Nolde "a primeval soul, a daemon of the earthly region...
...architect of her own literary monument, Katherine Anne Porter is the most sparing of designers. The graceful, towering spire of her reputation, unwavering after three decades, rests on three volumes containing but 22 long and short stories-Flowering Judas (1930), Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939), The Leaning Tower (1944). Last week at 71, still pretty, witty and as talkative as ever ("It's always been my sin"), Katherine Anne Porter announced that she had placed the massive capstone of her distinguished career: a 160,000-word novel, her first, scheduled for spring publication by Atlantic-Little, Brown. Sighed Author...
...five years, a whale on a flatcar was a pier feature. The long tradition of diving horses was largely established by a formidable gelding named John the Baptist, a sort of box office Seabiscuit, who plunged for 30 years, always carrying a bareback and more or less barebodied female rider. Over the years, a prodigious, petition-length list of big names showed up to play the Steel Pier, from Eddy Duchin to Paul Whiteman, Ben Blue to Bob Hope, Red Skelton to Betty Grable, Rudy Vallee and Gypsy Rose...
Aboard the bus, Freedom Rider Jim Lawson held a workshop on tactics for the riot that might come: "If we get knocked down, I think the best bet is to stand where we are if we can-or kneel where we are." But the only man in Alabama who lifted a finger at the Freedom Riders was a farmer, who thumbed his nose. At a rest stop, while Guardsmen glared at empty fields, Lawson disavowed the armed guard: "We appreciate the Government's concern, but protection does not solve the problem of segregation...