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...David Shapiro of Manhattan, the bright Italian sun seemed on fire; he was painting his skies a burning yellow. Sculptor Robert Becker of Far Rockaway, N.Y. was working in black screen, exhibited an abstraction that looked rather like a woman's fancy hat. Others had turned to Italy's fawn-colored countryside, painting delicately tinted landscapes and soft, expressionistic pictures of peasants and village priests. A favorite of the show: New Mexican Edward Chavez's flowing study of three white nuns' bonnets set against an abstract Florentine background...
Slicker. In Far Rockaway, N.Y., Arthur Brown, arrested in a chain store 'after the salesgirl he had spoken to ran screaming for help, finally succeeded in convincing police that 1) he was a porter employed by the company and 2) he had told the girl he wanted to slick up, not stick up, the store...
...master came accidentally to light. Mrs. Frank Brunner, of Rockaway Beach, N.Y., who "always liked having original paintings and water-colors in our house," made a habit of dropping in at local auctions every now & then, to pick up a fresh one. Six years ago she had spent $6 on a little watercolor of a farmer trailing home with his scythe at dusk, because she "liked the coloring." It looked very nice in the living room, until a friend of the family happened to suggest she look under the edge of the frame to see if the picture...
Antlered Kingdom. In Rockaway Township, N.J., Dewey Pott thought he saw a deer skating, roped it, found that it had grown six-inch rockers on its hoofs...
...were at once a vigorous ribbing of Tin Pan Alley and a ragtime celebration of places and moods of significance to the daft composer. The titles included: I'm Jimmy That Well-Dressed Man; Who Will Be With You When I'm Far Away, Out in Far Rockaway? and Did You Ever Have the Feelin' That You Wanted To Go, Still You Have the Feelin' That You Wanted To Stay? I Know Darn Well I Can Do Without Broadway (Can Broadway Do Without...