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Occasionally a craftsman of exceptional talent-a Matthew Pratt or Charles Willson Peale-would take up painting as a career. But producing folk art remained largely a part-time occupation of the village cabinetmaker, sign painter, stonecutter or shipwright-or was carried on by the womenfolk at home. The practitioners were nearly always self-taught, untrained in technique or even perspective, and tended to thrive far from urban cultural centers. But they made up for their deficiencies with sharp-eyed observation, an infectious joyousness in their labor, and a remarkable freshness of vision (see color...
Selling the Evidence. Dawn, 27, has always had a flair for making waves, in the pool and out. The strapping (5 ft. 9 in., 150 Ibs.) daughter of a Sydney shipwright, now married to a bookmaker, she has broken 36 world records, won four Olympic gold medals. She was the first woman to crack 1 min. for the 110-yd. free style, the only swimmer of either sex to win the same event (the 100 meters) in three successive Olympic competitions. ("If I had been able to swim nude," she says, "I'm sure I would have broken...
...Price of Anchovies. A well-to-do villager had already broken off his son's engagement with Mena, the eldest Malavoglia girl; the shipwright now ordered his daughter to stop seeing young 'Ntoni, Mena's brother. Grandfather 'Ntoni only drove the fishing harder. The neighbors said he was "hunting for trouble with a candlestick." One night he found it. The boom fell in a bad storm and struck his head. 'Ntoni and Alessi, his little brother, barely got the boat ashore; Grandfather 'Ntoni was laid up for months...
...enough to make an old salt weep. On a cruise to the Mediterranean last summer, the sleek, grey aircraft carrier Magnificent, 14,000 fighting tons and the pride of Canada's navy, began looking like a ruddy art gallery. The radio-room walls sprouted brightly colored canvases, the shipwright shop was festooned with art, so was the barber shop...
...Author Payne, who now lives in Montevallo, Ala., was born in Cornwall, the son of a French mother and a British naval architect. He went to school in England and Africa, later studied whatever pleased him in Munich and at the Sorbonne. For a time he worked as a shipwright in England, then, in 1939, he got a job in the yards at Singapore. By that time his books were getting published (one under the pseudonym Valentin Tikhonov). In 1941 he went to China for the British Ministry of Information, wound up with successive jobs at Fuhtan and Lienta Universities...