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...code signal indicating an attack against U.S. territory.* Yoshikawa immediately began burning his code books and other intelligence materials. When Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrived that day to pick him up for eventual repatriation, the only incriminating sign of his activities that they found was a sketch of Pearl Harbor...
...which probably bears out the publisher's claim that it is a definitive collection of the artist's lithographs. Since they date from 1922 to 1960, Marc Chagall's development becomes fascinatingly apparent. That he drew well from the start is evident from so simple a sketch as Woman Walking. But, typical of Chagall, it is not quite so simple as it might seem. The woman is leaning almost to the point of falling, and her hands are pressed together as in prayer. Behind her a house looms at the same tentative angle, and a tiny goat...
...storm. "That's fine! That's fine!" he would cry every time a big wave tossed the boat aloft. He drew on foot, on horseback and on trains, was outraged when the conductor would not hold the train long enough for him to complete a sketch: "Damn the fellow. He has no feeling!" His work was championed by such men as Critic John Ruskin and Painter Sir Thomas Lawrence and commanded top prices. But it was also called the worst "claptrap ever painted...
Nice to Call. In Britain the reaction was mixed. "Be glad," trumpeted the tabloid Daily Sketch, while the Church of England newspaper warned against "blurring" of the "precise dogmatic cleavage" between the two churches. The Rev. Howard Stanley, secretary of the Congregational Union, said that Congregationalists would wish the Archbishop well; but the moderator of the Church of Scotland, the Rev. John Burleigh, sniffed that it was "nice of the Archbishop to call on the Pope, but I hope only pleasantries will be exchanged...
MAURICE BRAZIL PRENDERGAST is being honored at the BOSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS with a major exhibition of his works. Over 150 watercolors, oils, monotypes, and sketch-books will be shown--many for the first time publicly...