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...that animals are superior to human beings. He would never ride a horse. He tried to be a vegetarian, had to give it up when he became too weak. To the end of his life nearly all his ration points for meat went to satisfy the sleek gang of stray dogs and cats he took care...
...meal passed without some outburst of excitement. Bloody fights among the colored waiters. Class wars, and demonstrations against the constant stream of sightseers who thronged the galleries to "watch the animals eat" served to hallow the bust-lined walls. Many were the wild tales that passed about of stray dogs which disappeared into her kitchens never again to see the light...
...that is no unpremeditated lapse into an editorial We. . . . A copy of TIME, either size, goes a route here in the Aleutians. . . . Limp and dog-eared, they probably end in some hut's trash, but that happens only after months and after all the maps and stray glamour pix have been scissored for pinups...
Born in Dover, Ohio, Papsdorf has al ways lived in Ohio or Michigan. His German-born ex-missionary father sent him to grade schools, kept a sharp eye on his son's pastimes. Fred Papsdorf made his own beginner's colors out of stray tinted chalk mixed with linseed oil, later ordered10? tubes of mail-order paint (pictures made with these paints, he says, have held correct color values through the years...
...Boston Library did not hang some of its more raffish Rowlandson items. But the show contained such characteristic works as At Close Range, a deft landscape containing a stray huntsman spying on a lover's embrace, and the farcical Pig in a Poke, in which a juicy porker tries to escape pursuing humanity through the heavy legs of an equally porcine woman...