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...jungle. Such a tool is his latest work shown, 1963-A, bristling with black fury like a thunderhead. It is swathed onto raw canvas with his palette knife like sooty icing, with only flecks of lavender and blue to serve a lighter side. It is also a darkling mirror of Still's personality. As he says, "Painting must be an extension of the man, of his blood, a confrontation with himself. Only thus can a valid instrument of individual freedom be created...
...second quarter, however, the Elis wasted little time. In a play practically the mirror-image of the one that Akuffo scored on, Yale's John Upton got behind the Crimson defense and drove in on goalie Nat Bowdich to blast a shot by him for the score...
...during a performance of Mignon, in Keokuk, Iowa. "My mother should have known better than to go to the opera that night," she once observed. She grew up, fat and unhappy, in San Francisco, where her father was an insurance man and stringer for the New York Dramatic Mirror...
...delighted surprise of the Mirror, which doubted that Andy's appeal would survive south of the Midlands, he was instantly popular all over the island. Soon the strip crossed to the mainland and picked up such pseudonyms as Kasket Karl (Denmark), Tuff a Victor (Sweden), and Jan Met de Pet (The Netherlands). When Andy spanned the Atlantic to join the stable of New York's Hall Syndicate, his success was equally smashing. Among the charter subscribers: the Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, and Marshalltown (Iowa) Times-Republican...
...Common Fondness. British newspapers do not share syndication income with the artist, as do U.S. papers, and Andy has enriched the Mirror rather more than his creator. Reg Smythe does not even get anything from the considerable sale of Andy Capp books. But Smythe, who draws a $25,000 salary that is handsome by British standards, hardly considers himself shortchanged. He has just renewed his Mirror contract for another five years, and he remains as fond of Andy as Andy is of himself. After all, it was Artist Smythe who put these words in the mouths of Andy...