Word: self-portraits
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Right to Left. H. T. Webster insists that Milquetoast is a self-portrait. Short of perhaps Joseph Stalin, it would be difficult to think of any man who looks less like Milquetoast than his creator. Webster carries all of his 6 ft. 3 in. without either the cringing or the exaggerated erectness of the man who is uneasy in this world. His face is handsome, ruddy and unlined, his blue eyes are direct and uncomplicated...
...Persian Practice. In some form, hemp has been smoked since long before the beginning of the Christian Era. It was familiar to the ancient Hindus and Persians. It is smoked widely by the Arabs. Eminent European vipers have included De Quincey, Baudelaire (who once, under the influence, sketched a self-portrait, with the Colonne Vendôme in hashish perspective), Dumas, Gautier. The U. S. vogue, precisely coincident with the vogue for hot jazz, began in New Orleans a generation ago, moved up the Mississippi to Chicago, thereafter spread east and west...
...crimson plazas in Valparaiso and Santiago. Luis Herrera Guevara, a Chilean "primitive" painter of great splash & dash, was having his first U.S. exhibition, in Manhattan. He showed sailing boats in a topsy-turvy port, ornate buildings with leaning façades, a bus looking like an enlarged caterpillar, a self-portrait revealing a jaundiced gentleman with jet hair. Critics were enchanted. They could not fail to make comparisons with the pigmental innocence and charm of France's late, great "primitive" Henri "Douanier" Rousseau...
...late George Gershwin was represented by his self-portrait posed before his easel in top hat, white tie and tails. Nathan Milstein, top-rank violinist, revealed himself as a minor master in watercolor. Rumbologist Xavier Cugat sketched himself standing before invisible bongo drums...
Chief Petty Officer Harold F. Dixon was the leader of the three. His story is an astonishing self-portrait. Dixon has no humble streak in his nature. At 41, "a tough old chief petty officer" with 22 years service behind him, he knew precisely what he meant to do with that raft. "I was determined to sail it if I could. And I maintain that I did sail it. I worked like the devil to sail it, and I resent anyone's saying we 'drifted.' " Nor did he ever doubt who was boss. "Naturally...