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...United Cerebral Palsy Association of Metropolitan Boston is sponsoring a jog-a-thon Sunday, April 28, at 11 a.m. beginning at the Marriot Motor Hotel on Route 128. The object of the event is to obtain sponsors for each runner to pay a dollar or more per mile. The proceeds will go to the United Cerebral Palsy Association. Registration forms may be obtained by writing to Johnny Kelley, UCP of Metropolitan Boston, 210 Webster Street, West Newton, Ma. 02165, or by calling 965-9850. Registration entries must be received before April 25. The jog-a-thon entries...
Tunics to Trunks. Department stores were only too delighted to respond to the spell. Most took full-page newspaper ads celebrating serpent fashions. Manhattan's Lord & Taylor opened a special shop, "Great Snakes," last month, stocked it with everything from real py thon tunics to synthetic-snake robes, jackets and dresses, and fake python steamer trunks. At Saks in San Francisco snaky accessories are going at such a striking rate there are never enough around for a window display. In Manhattan, boutiques got into the swing, repapered their walls with snakeskin and offered esoteric items like the cobra patchwork...
...purely interpretive. I have nothing to equate it with. I don't know whether it is like him or unlike him." Still, the young artist must be doing something right: he has been commissioned by NASA authorities to join Robert Rauschenberg, John Meigs and William Thon at Cape Kennedy to sketch his impressions of this week's scheduled Apollo 11 blastoff to the moon...
...zest and pounding rhythm of Luca Giordano's 1702 Crucifixion is all the more remarkable because the artist turned out his work at maximum speed; in his day, he was known as Luca fa presto, or Fast Worker Luca. Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini's Fall of Phaëthon is built of thin, semitransparent layers of oil paint and has a lightness that the finished fresco undoubtedly lacked (the sketch has outlived the fresco, which was destroyed in World...
...Recall-a-thon has failed to produce any last-minute surge of activity. A county-fair booth in ultra-conservative Orange County has garnered some signatures-but, says Koupal, has also caused one volunteer there to be beaten up. Whatever the ultimate outcome, the signature validating will scarcely have begun when the Republicans meet in Miami Beach, and the campaign could thus damage Reagan's hope for the nomination. In any case, Reagan is not likely to lose all that much luster at home. A Mervin Field Poll last week showed that if a recall election were actually held...