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...Your toga spotless, white, and neat...
...also a long time dying. Under the Ptolemies, and even during the early years of Roman domination, the work of Egyptian sculptors "was still pharaonic art, made more interesting by a restrained exoticism." But, says Drioton sadly, the day came "when sculptors . . . tried to treat the drapery of the toga like the costume of the pharaohs . . . When Egyptian sculpture reached this point, it could only disappear...
...standard for the gala event will be the presidents of the respective organizations. Dyed M. Foulard, CRIMSON will be attired in an impeccable knee-length camel's hair shirt (available from Mohammeds Men's Shop), while Lampoon pace-setter Fabric M. Gowne will appear in a faultlessly tailored plaid toga (available from Marcellus MacTavish's Faultlessly Tailored Toga Togs). It is reliably reported that in the event of rain, Mr. Gowne will cover his toga with an exotic cape of woven pandanus leaves (available at the Arnold Arboretum...
Readily recognizable art played second fiddle at the Whitney, except for a couple of standout pictures. Jack Levine's Act of Legislature-a dull-looking chap in a toga stabbing a half-naked girl-was a vivid, if highly unpleasant, mixture of lust and righteous rage. At the Sea a Girl was a pompously titled new departure for Henry Koerner, one of the country's most promising young painters. With even more ambiguous symbolism than that which characterized his last exhibition (TIME, Feb. 21), Koerner had painted a girl hauled from the ocean while an uncurious crowd fished...
...Then, as Toga was led out, Politis grabbed his tongue with his left hand, pulled it out as far as he could and came up hard under his jaw with his right fist. His teeth bit right through his tongue...