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Thomas Eakins (rhymes with makin's) lived & died (1844-1916) without enjoying or soliciting artistic honors. In last week's show he was commemorated in 88 of his works, chiefly oils plus four of the little wax figures he made to help him with his sculptural paintings, and a few of the charming, swift sketches he always made in oil, even for his watercolors. One of these paintings, Salutat, represented his famed boxing series, which he painted before gentlemen were supposed to profess an interest in pugilism. Another, The Biglen Brothers Turning the Stake, represented his equally famed rowing series...
...Other suggestions for industrial crops: japan wax and lacquer from the poison oak of southern swamplands; sugar and byproducts from the neglected southwestern maple tree; storax for perfumes and flavors from the sweet gum tree; yellow dyes from the Osage orange or hedge apple...
Sergeant Joe Louis Barrow, in Eng land on a camp-tour of exhibition boxing matches, had his mahogany-carved features measured for wax by London's Bernard Tussaud, of the great French wax-figure family...
North from Florida in a gritty whirl of orange peels and wax paper rattled a train of ancient, ill-assorted day coaches last week-the first "relief train" hauling stranded escapists home. Its faded red & green cars got to Manhattan five hours late, released some 500 battered passengers, and went back empty to haul another load away. Next day the second of the two extra coach trains allowed by ODT for the Great Evacuation arrived three hours late. The sordid shuttling will go on; by midsummer, said ODT, all the suntanned refugees may get home...
...structure of the Chinese language, got it down to ele ments that could be written on a small sheet of paper. Next Hockett listened to two Chinese civilian assistants, Fang and Chew Hong, talk Chinese for three and a half weeks. The simplest and clearest remarks were cut on wax. Then Hockett, Fang, Hong and the officers sailed for China with lesson books, a few records, some hand-wind phonographs...