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...doctor and the Hartford police arrived an hour later, they could piece together only part of the mystery. Mrs. Higginson had gone out to dinner the night before, leaving the children in charge of a 16-year-old Negro boy. She returned about 10:30 and dismissed the "sitter." She was found next day in the trench coat in which she entered the house. The police questioned the baby-tender and believed his story. Mrs. Higginson's broken wrist watch indicated that the attack had come, apparently from behind, at 11:15. There had been no attempt at rape...
...chair-sized chips of plywood (to demonstrate the versatility of wood molders); pat-the-bunny samples of various materials; early modern chairs whose box-kitelike form suggested early abstract paintings-and a chair whose fishnet seat (draped over a pneumatic, plastic doughnut) was surrealistically adapted to the most unsurrealistic sitter...
...Pink Sitter. Natural bravado has seen modest, round-faced, contralto-voiced Frances Langford through a routine that would have ruined lesser women. She has ranged heartily from woolen underwear in Alaska to a halter-bra in Africa. During...
Abraham Walkowitz, the world's most prolific portrait sitter, held an unusual one-man show last week-130 portraits of himself by 109 U.S. artists. (The show's official title, One Hundred Artists and Walkowitz, was a modest understatement...
Endurance Record. Sitter Walkowitz himself considered his one-man show prodigious. "It has never been done before," he said, "and I doubt if it will ever be done again, because there will probably never be another Walkowitz with the . . . endurance ... to sit for 100 artists for a year." Walkowitz claims that it required 700 hours of sitting to produce his exhibition. The time in lost man-hours (he was invariably painted for nothing) cost him "numerous thousands of dollars." But he got into the situation before he realized it: "I said if I sat for two of my friends...