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Oldfashioned, mebbe, but Troy, Ohio, Feed Mill Owner Russell Stacy Altman, 76, just didn't trust banks completely. Now 10-gal. milk cans buried near the mill, that's a different thing. So last month, in delirium on his deathbed at Minnesota's Mayo Clinic, Altman told his son and daughter about the milk cans. They thought it was a little strange, but nevertheless, after a decent interval, they decided to dig around a little. By the end of last week they had unearthed three of them, stuffed with...
...writer of a daily humor column in the Tulsa World, Troy Gordon gets a lot of calls from people who are trying to be funny, so he was not at all surprised, back in July 1962, when a man called up and said he could make it rain. To prove it, he said he would make it rain in Tulsa within 72 hours after any day and hour that Gordon cared to name. Gordon amiably agreed to specify a time, reported the incident in his column. Within the designated 72 hours, it rained. The local U.S. Weather Bureau office...
Last week the 22 exhibitions ran the gamut of modernism, from a show of Arp and Henry Moore sculpture at the distinguished Felix Landau Gallery to paintings by Pop Artist Billy Al Bengston at the Ferus Gallery. Billy Al does canvases with titles like Rock, Troy, Tyrone, Sterling. One called Fabian consists of large master-sergeant stripes against a background of orange and blue-grey doughnut shapes. It is social comment, Billy Al explains: everyone wants to be topkick. At the Heritage Gallery, a lumpy figurative painting by Rod Briggs lets out wails every time a viewer's shadow...
...found an urn painting of Ajax and Achilles playing it during the siege of Troy; he found African chieftains playing for stakes of female slaves, and maharajahs using rubies and star sapphires as counters. He finally traced it back some 7,000 years to the ancient Sumerians, who evolved the six-twelve-sixty system of keeping numerical records." Out of this system of record keeping, the Sumerians developed this ur-game of board games...
...studio, a single pop tune may blare from his phonograph over and over again. Movie magazines, Elvis Presley albums, copies of Teen Pinups and Teen Stars Albums litter the place. Warhol is known for his literal renditions of soup cans, his rows of Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor and Troy Donahue. He stencils them onto the canvas by the silk-screen process, then touches in the colors. Though the result can be excruciatingly monotonous, the apparently senseless repetition does have the jangling effect of the syllabic babbling of an infant-not Dada, but dadadadadadadada. In his own way, Warhol is perhaps...