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Eberhart went to teach at St. Mark's where Robert Lowell became his student, and then, after the war, worked in his father-in-law's wax factory while he wrote and helped to organize the original Poet's Theatre...
Next, Operation Breadbasket turned to promote sales of goods produced by Negro enterprises, threatening boycotts to force stores to stock such products as Mumbo barbecue sauce and Diamond Sparkle wax. "Mumbo grew 600% in only four months," exults Jackson, who is now negotiating with Chicago stores to market the produce of an Alabama farm cooperative run by dispossessed Negro sharecroppers...
...Castello di Fiemme in the Dolomites, the tireless Nones sped 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) in 1 hr. 35 min. 39.2 sec., to beat Norway's Odd Martinsen by the margin of 49.7 sec.-roughly the equivalent of three city blocks. Some experts credited Nones' victory to the wax he used on his skis -a special green wax designed particularly for the kind of crusty, frozen snow that covered the course. But Third Place Finisher Eero Maentyranta of Finland, who won the same brutally taxing race at Innsbruck in 1964, allowed that wax was not his problem. Said...
...races. If I win, everybody will say, 'Well, of course, he was supposed to win.' If I lose, they will say I let them down. I don't want to make alibis, but I tell you that in skiing, it takes nothing to lose. The wrong wax oh the skis, a spot of soft snow, a slight miscalculation and-poof!-the race is over. I can only do my best. That...
What the current exhibit of 73 of his works at Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art has demonstrated is that Conner remains as fine an artist as the pop laureates, and is far fiercer. In their own way, his fragile panels and boxes, smeared with black wax and ornamented with tarnished jewelry, Victorian wallpaper, girlie postcards and other detritus, shock and edify much as does a scabrous Matthias Grunewald crucifixion, or the death's-head kept as a memento mori by medieval princes...