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Besides a bold, colorful cover by Lewis Gifford and two passable stories by Michael Arlen and Charles OsBorne, only Updike's drawing and light verse save the Lampoon from falling into the category of dull, soggy reading matter. On the other hand, Updike's Advocate sketch, his poem Famous Americans II, and five snappy drawings are really high quality material--worthy, I believe, of the Benchley, Williams Golden Age of Lampoonery...
Constantin Guys could sketch, with equal ease, a cavalry charge or a crinolined cocotte. As a war correspondent in the Crimea, he turned out sheaves of detailed drawings of battles and camp life. As a Parisian artist-about-town, he caught the elegant manners and shady morals of his contemporaries. Although he lacked Daumier's satiric bite and Rowlandson's ribald bounce, Guys's quick eye and facile technique made him one of Europe's ablest 19th century reporters. Last week, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth, some of the best of Guys...
...week's show. Its half-dozen sponsors pay $150,000 a week to put the show on the air. Last month Liebman built the interior of a submarine at a cost of $2,000, then used the set for only 72 minutes in a Sid Caesar sketch...
...magazine had almost nothing to say of its own growth. "This issue," it said, "is not the story of Jesuit Missions . . . It is the necessarily thin sketch of men who have labored in the greatest undertaking on earth...
...life. In a world where all truths have become relative and experimental, the only reality left is change. "The man of the Flight," Picard writes, "has no firm standard against which to measure himself. He has only the possibilities." Philosopher Picard's book is a fleeting, sometimes fearful sketch of what the world of possibilities looks like from the village of Caslano. Excerpts...