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...years before his death, the painter Thomas Eakins made a sale that overnight made headlines. It was an oil sketch; the buyer was Albert C. Barnes, just then beginning to use his great Argyrol fortune to build up his great art collection. The press spread the rumor that Barnes had paid $50,000 for the sketch (a better guess would have been $5,000), and suddenly Eakins found himself being hailed as "the dean of American painters." His place in U.S. art has remained secure ever since, but true recognition came late for Eakins himself...
...handful of brilliant monologues. He has now committed himself to The Bob Newhart Show (NBC), which requires as much new material each week as he used to develop in months. Last week's premiére showed the strain, starting with a superb phone monologue and autobiographical sketch ("people thought I was taller than I am, but this is about as big as an accountant will get") and sliding slowly downhill thereafter...
...domestic enemy ("Some reporters write with crayons"), he settled down quickly to a chatty description of the foreign enemy in Moscow. Astonishingly enough, Paar as a reporter proved to be absolutely superb, from his description of the eerie silence of Russian crowds to his sketch of the ambitious personality of his Intourist guide. In one felicitous phrase, he marveled at the lack of a cultural and technological middle ground between "the outhouse and outer space"; in a fine vignette, he explained why all Russian traffic comes to a halt when a rainstorm begins: motorists keep windshield wipers locked away...
...near Sunset Strip, and their wild enthusiasm often suggests the final hours before a college humor magazine is put to bed. Ward, 41, is a former real estate man who entered TV in 1947, conceiving, writing and co-producing Crusader Rabbit, the first original animated television cartoon. Scott, whose sketch pad now yields all the Bullwinkle characters, wrote scripts for U.P.A.'s The Nearsighted Mister Magoo and Gerald McBoing Boing...
...Americans'] exploits been recorded in a school adventure story, it would have been held to be improbable." Demanding to know how the highly favored British women's tennis team could have suffered such a humiliating defeat (6-1 ) at the hands of the U.S. girls, the Daily Sketch called for an official investigation. Indeed, about the only Britons who gracefully accepted the loss of the Wightman Cup at Chicago last week were the losers. Said British Team Captain Beatrice Walter: "All in all, the Americans played better than I expected...