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Stranger Than Fiction. In Memphis, Howard Miller, hoping to brush off an old girl friend, told her that he was wanted in seven states by the police, was picked up when cops got wind of his tale, then jailed on a genuine forgery charge when he paid his bail with a phony $100 check...
...Nuts!") McAuliffe, 57, due to wind up his 38-year military career at May's end, winged in from London to New York's International Airport. A jaunty figure in mufti, Tony McAuliffe discounted chances of all-out nuclear war but foresaw a possibility of small "brush wars" involving tactical atomic weapons. Said he: "We'd be suckers if we attempted to fight the Russians with only conventional weapons." What about McAuliffe's fellow cadet at West Point, New York-born General (ret.) Mark W. Clark, president of South Carolina's Citadel, whose Dixieland views...
...Japanese, Sesshu is, as one early critic said, "the open door through which all contemporary and subsequent artists looked into the seventh heaven of Chinese genius." Working mainly in sumi ink and brush, Sesshu changed the Chinese art of landscape into something typically Japanese, portraying traditional Japanese scenes in sure, strong brush strokes that gave a new vigor and vision to the exquisite lines of the Chinese Sung period. From Sesshu onward, Japanese painting had a look of its own and a tradition still practiced by such modern masters as Taikwan Yokohama (TIME, Sept...
...hidden. As they were leaving the house, the captors decided to untape the men lest they seem conspicuous. At that, Hicks and Hamlett dashed in opposite directions yelling for the police. The two sleuths fled in alarm in Hamlett's car, quickly ditched it after a narrow brush with a police...
Sunny Side Up. In Hackensack, N.J., Mrs. Harriett Paula Bisagni got a divorce after testifying that her husband forced her to eat her breakfast on the kitchen floor which he made her scrub with a fingernail brush...