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Yalies who think that happiness is a can of blue paint and a paint brush are going to have a sad weekend...
Propped up in bed in a Tokyo hospital, retiring Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda, recovering from a throat tumor, took up writing brush and rice paper. At the plea of his hopelessly deadlocked party, he stroked off a note choosing his own successor. Two hours later, Eisako Sato, 63, the dynamo of five former Cabinets, became the tenth Prime Minister of postwar Japan-and, all but inevitably, a man destined to guide his nation along a new course, for, after 19 years of penance, Asia's only fully industrialized country seems about to reclaim its place as a world power...
Seance on a Wet Afternoon. The medium looks like a plump 40-year-old schoolgirl whose face has the form and consistency of unbaked bread. She speaks to her timorous husband in plaintive, halting phrases, pausing from time to time to brush away some imaginary disturbance in the middle of her forehead. "Arthur wants me to be recognized for what I am. What we're doing is not ... wrong, Billy...
Even the birds do their bit for the classless society. On de luxe partridge and pheasant shoots on the old Habsburg preserves in northern Czechoslovakia, hunters stay in luxurious castles: black tie for dinner is de rigueur. In the mornings, hundreds of peasants fan out through the brush to drive the birds into range. Daily bags run as high as 140 birds per gun. Cost of a "royal weekend," as Red tourist folders unashamedly...
...caused a row at the 1924 Salon des Indépendants because it took up almost all the space that U.S. artists were allotted. Murphy worked tirelessly in a technique as meticulous as his detail. He used airplane linen, painstakingly mocked up his drawing before he picked up a brush. A cigar-box lid in Cocktail (1928), which splays bartenders' tools flat against the picture plane, took him four months to paint...