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...Vile Caricature...
Your issue of April 21 contains an interesting but slightly misleading article on Keats's sketch of Haydon now exhibited in the London National Portrait Gallery. The reproduction fails to make clear that the "vile caricature of B. R. Haydon by John Keats" (as Haydon, not Keats, wrote beneath it) is the faintly drawn profile in the background, reproduced herewith [see cut] with the other sketches by Haydon suppressed. . . . This is indeed a "vile caricature...
...proclaim its charter, the Gallery last week put on exhibition 50 newly acquired portraits. One was a sketch by John Keats (see cut) of Painter Benjamin Haydon, which Keats himself described as "a vile caricature." Beside it hung Haydon's profile of Keats, which was not much better...
Charging into the polluted chamber, they discovered the offending member--a mattress impregnated with a vile chemical concoction. Its owner, Walter Barker '49, suspects that he has been the victim of foul play. But investigators are still toying with the idea that some of the kiddies down the river may have misplaced some of their playthings...
Tucked away in a corner of Paris' rue Chaptal, a cobblestone nook at the edge of Montmartre, is a quaint little Gothic chapel. Inside, carved cherubs and two seven-foot angels smile down from the black-raftered vault at a nightly round of vile murders, manglings, and assorted acts of torturing, fang-baring, acid-throwing...