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Drawing on sound anatomical knowledge, Barye built his clay models up from the skeleton. Though his sculptures are on a tabletop scale, they make picturesque heroes out of wild animals, emphasizing their surging power and proud cruelty in a way that artists have never truly bothered to portray since. Other notable animaliers included Christophe Fratin, son of a taxidermist, and Rosa Bonheur, who later mistakenly gave up sculpture for painting...
Grand champion in last week's contest was Henry Harnish Jr., 15, of Whippany, N.J., who estimates that he has raced against 1,000 other tabletop drivers since he started just a year ago. Henry owns more than 25 model cars, switched parts among them to achieve his championship racer. His prize: a white Thunderbird. He will give it to his father, a factory shop foreman, who will sell the family Mercury ('61) and give the money to Henry...
...Nebraska's Mari Sandoz, 61, has tilled her own neat field well enough to become one of the better sod sisters. Her latest novel, despite its gamblin' title, is no card party. Her hero, John Jackson Cozad. was indeed a wily gentleman jackleg, but a green baize tabletop never confined his instinct for conquest. In 1872, when every faro den east of the Mississippi had barred its doors to his talent for bank breaking, Cozad made a down payment on 40,000 acres of Union Pacific land in Nebraska near the Platte River. A community there, he dreamed...
...dungaree-clad London housewife, Frink had her first exhibition while still in art school. Last week her tabletop bronzes were on view at Manhattan's Bertha Schaefer Gallery. At first glance, many looked like mud attempting to fly; they were that energetic and that saggy. The combination said something blue about man's estate, the approved tone of most contemporary sculpture. But Frink's ostensible purpose has nothing to do with moral messages or with ideals of any kind, not even plastic ones. "Somebody makes a metal armature for me," she explains, "and I start covering...
Born on a tabletop in Joe's Café, The dirtiest place in the U.S.A., Killed his paw with TNT . Killed his maw with...