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Most of the big brushes of French painting-Matisse, Braque, Rouault and Dufy-were not competing. Partly to avoid discouraging lesser-knowns, they had not been invited. The situation with regard to the biggest brush of all, Pablo Picasso, was tantalizingly obscure. Somebody (possibly Picasso himself) had signed his name to a list of French artists, most of them Communists, attacking the Marshallizing of French art. At the same time, Picasso had sold reproduction rights for at least one of his paintings, Mother and Child (see cut), to Hall Brothers, Inc. in a private deal last year. On the Riviera...
Aaron is a New England boy, raised in the Berkshires, "not tall nor short, with a brush of chestnut hair, and brown eyes that were serene and markedly friendly, his forehead noble and clear as a scholar's -or an actor's-only a fair dancer but a competent drinker." His dying grandfather, who had Episcopal leanings, was "a merry and evil old man who remembered the days . . . when, small though he was, he could swing a quarryman's sledge and make a woman moan with love." He had urged Aaron to become a rebel...
...matter of fact, these dog fanciers are a pretty shifty breed, tall, gaunt folks with an option on half the unborn thoroughbred pups in North America. But the dogs themselves are a pleasant, patient lot who accept graciously some small attention and stand stoically as their masters brush, comb, chalk them, or hack away at their toenails...
...guinea pigs, the foundation, cooperating with the Poloris Co., which manufactures one type of ammoniated powder called Amm-i-dent, has chosen the schoolchildren of Mahopac, N.Y. (pop. 1,109). Some 500 Mahopac pupils from kindergarten through the tenth grade will be asked to brush their teeth twice a day with Amm-i-dent. Free X rays and periodic dental examination will provide a running check on the experiment. Its sponsors hope that the new powder will prove effective against decay, regardless of the tooth-owner...
Trouble had been brewing for the past six months-ever since Aubrey L. Ashby (class of '08) had taken over as president. Brush-mustached, cigar-puffing Aubrey Ashby, 62, onetime vice president of the National Broadcasting Co., didn't like anything that had been happening under his last two predecessors. Olivet (enrollment: 287) had earned quite a reputation as a progressive college with a highly literary flavor and a strong political bent. As far as Ashby was concerned, the place was a hotbed of socialists, pacifists, and foggy-minded liberals...