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Last week TIME Correspondent Israel Shenker found Carrington at Yalemba, a jungle outpost in the Congo. There Carrington and his wife run a thriving mission school and are the guiding spirits of a community of some 500 natives. But John Carrington, 40, is now a missionary of another sort. Since only one pupil in ten knows how to speak on the drums, he has planned a special course to keep the ancient art alive...
...started in the winter of 1951 when our part-time correspondent in Holland, Israel Shenker, heard about the work of Escher, a little known Dutch graphic artist, and tracked him down. Shenker was struck by Escher's technique and cabled our editors that he was worth reporting. The result was a long story which described Escher's "brilliantly conceived" work, and was illustrated with pictures of his prints (TIME, April...
...RONALD SHENKER Flushing...
Ignoring the machine's candidate, he hammered away at Shenker, at gamblers, bosses, and rackets. He kept plugging the fact that Shenker is one of St. Louis' busiest criminal lawyers, that he represented such big-time gamblers as C. J. ("Kew-pie") Rich and Bookie James J. Carroll before the Kefauver Crime Investigating Committee (TIME, March 5). When Shenker announced that he would run his law practice to suit himself, Bakewell cried out that "a vote for Shenker is a vote for gamblers...
Last week, in a special congressional election, Lawyer Bakewell's campaign paid off. The day before election, St. Louis' Democratic Mayor Joseph M. Darst publicly repudiated Shenker; the C.I.O. Political Action Committee, which usually follows the Democratic line, refused to get out the vote. When the returns were in, Claude Bakewell had beaten the machine and Morris Shenker by 6,187 votes...