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Chicago's municipal water-supply inlets and those of industries that draw water directly from the lake became clogged time and again with the little (two-to-seven-inch) alewives. Off Benton Harbor, Mich., an aerial photographer reported a ribbon of dead fish 50 ft. wide and 40 miles long floating on the surface of the lake...
...pace from radio's hot-and-heavy barrage of records, news, and commercials, Chickenman was hatched 16 months ago on Chicago's WCFL. He is an ineffectual superhero, like television's Captain Nice and Mr. Terrific. Unlike them, Chickenman is genuinely witty. His real name is Benton Harbor, and his game is selling women's shoes in the Midland City department store, so he is available to fight "crime and/or evil" weekends only. "I don't want to be bugged at the store," he keeps having to remind the police commissioner...
...have long made liberal use of color engravings-which happen to be expensive but which, we feel, are indispensable to art journalism. As early as 1934 we ran color to support a story about American artists, including Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood. Since May 1951, Art has run color illustrations as a regular feature-1,413 color pages all told. "Black and white photography," says Senior Editor Cranston Jones, who is in charge of the Art section, "leaves out an essential element of the artist's statement...
...friends and those who had never met Pollock were equally enthusiastic. Jasper Johns was particularly taken with the extraordinary range and variety of the works in the exhibition, which begins with Pollock's earliest, and remarkably mediocre, landscapes, reflecting the influence of his first mentor, Thomas Hart Benton, continues through his famous "drip" paintings of the late 1940s and early 1950s, and concludes with his anguished return to figuration just before his death...
...DAVID COWDEN Benton...