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...modern turn to painting has set some 300,000 U.S. citizens to learning the pure and harmless pleasures of the brush and easel. Last week 228 of them were discovering the prouder joys of exhibition. The winners of a nationwide contest sponsored by Art News magazine, they had had their works hung in Manhattan's Riverside Museum for all the world to gawk and snicker...
Columnist Rodney was obviously in need of a brush-up course in subtle chauvinism. Last week he apologized again, this time for quoting San Francisco University Basketball Coach Pete Newell's description of Substitute Willie Wong as "exceptionally fast, intelligent and a good shot." Lamented Rodney: "The inclusion of 'intelligent' was a subtle form of chauvinism ... I had thought of it as part of the reason why a player of only 5-4 could make a college team . . . Looking back . . . it is clear enough that the SF mentor was expressing ... so called white superiority over those with...
Meanwhile, on the local scene, Instructors have been nodding to last-performance applause, folding their briefcases, and quietly stealing away. Biddies are marshalling mops and dusters to brush over students' quarters for the last time...
After concerts he usually hurries out of the greenroom, nods to the waiting knot of well-wishers, then pops into his black Oldsmobile sedan for a dash home to Brush Hill Road in suburban Milton (the former home of the late Bishop William Lawrence). Only when he reaches the sanctuary of his second-story study, with Roger, his chauffeur-valet of 20 years' service hovering around him, does he seem to draw a relaxed breath...
...when there is a rehearsal, he gets up at 8, eats an unusually hearty breakfast of bacon, scrambled eggs and tea (says Madame Munch: "In Boston we have not yet found good bread"). After rehearsals, if he has no engagement in town, he scoots back to the quiet of Brush Hill Road for luncheon...