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JEAN, keen-eyed William Thon is an outdoor man with a devoted indoor following. Thon (rhymes with gone) lives in a fishing village on the coast of Maine, paints Maine's rocks, trees and seas subjectively and with intimate under standing; nature forms the architecture of his world. Thon's luxurious frame house, which he has built with his own hands, is like one room in the vast, roughhewn, sky-ceilinged mansion of his surroundings. His self-appointed task is to translate those surroundings into a few square feet of painted canvas-to bring the outdoors indoors...
...tiny village of Tri Thon, a company of Communist soldiers, sleepily cooking their breakfast rice, suddenly found themselves surrounded by French commandos. In hand-to-hand fighting, knives flashing, 60 Communists were killed, the rest routed. In 80 other Viet Minh villages along a 14-mile front, the French surprise attack was equally effective...
...Maurice Sterne's Approaching Storm and William Thon's Life Saving Station looked bigger than they actually were. Each was a first-rate example of a kind of impressionism U.S. painters seem to excel at-somber, broadly painted pictures of nature in turmoil...
...York Timesman Edward Alden Jewell, an imperceptibly left-of-center critic, chose William Thon's sweeping, salty view Under the Brooklyn Bridge. Critic Jewell, 57, has the same rambling sort of authority his paper has; his gentle, liberal, usually safe-&-sane voice is heard all over...
...thon-ki-du-ke (Have you worms...