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Inevitably, the chief hero of Flexner's book is Boston's John Singleton Copley, who made an art out of the craft. His stepfather died in 1751, and Copley at 13 had somehow to support his mother and infant halfbrother. Though portraiture was built on stylistic tricks and flattering poses of which he knew nothing, young Copley decided that...
Sidney Bechet, who is 49 but looks older, has delivered the same two-beat jazz over half the U.S., in London, Paris, Berlin and Moscow. With his pals, including Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and Zutty Singleton, he has played it on nearly 100 records. Experts have named him on their all-star bands. But he hasn't made a fortune...
London's war-scarred Tate Gallery brimmed last week with the sweet & sour cream of U.S. art: 240 paintings by everyone from the razor-sharp 18th Century Portraitist John Singleton Copley to his blunt-edged fellow Bostonian, bitter, 31-year-old ex-G.I. Jack Levine...
...letter from R. Singleton Sims, of Madison, Wis., in your issue of Dec. 3, moves me to protest...
...SINGLETON SIMS Madison...