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...artists who came after behaved like delighted, bright-eyed children let loose in a supermarket. They too liked their objects big. Andy Warhol enlarged a Campbell soup can and made it an object of veneration; Tom Wesselman celebrated bathrooms and kitchens; Robert Rauschenberg painted his own bed, made a sacred relic out of a stuffed goat with a tire round his middle and walked off with first honors at the 1964 Venice Biennale. Onetime Sign Painter James Rosenquist composed his images of the modern U.S.A. -from hair dryers to atomic bombs-on a canvas titled F-lll, which measures...
...erotic. Edward Kienholz's plaster couple makes love in the back seat of a real, if dismembered, car. Larry Rivers' seven-foot, three-faced Negro in plywood achieves vivid connection with a complaisant friend by way of a flashing light bulb. A disembodied female breast by Tom Wesselman looms, big as a mountain, over a diminished seashore...
Married. Robert G. Wesselman, 38, former Roman Catholic monsignor and official of the diocese of Belleville, Ill., who resigned from the priesthood last Oct. 24; and Frances Burton, 36, divorced mother of two; in Hardin, Ill., on Nov. 18. Wesselman, who intends to take a job in an antipoverty program, said he had resigned because the church had failed "to sufficiently identify with those who suffer from prejudice...
Foils: Won by Gilbert Kerlin 2L; second, Lilienthal; third, Henry B. Wesselman...
...fiercely contested final match Gilbert Kerlin 2L, defeated Philip E. Lilienthal '36, to win the University fencing championship in the foils. Henry B. Wesselman 3L, was runner-up in third place, and John G. Hurd 1L, took fourth...