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...backlog of impressive portraits of his artist and writer friends. When the ab stractionists took over center stage, he tended to fade from public view. Last week Manhattan's Cober Gallery offered a reminder that Biddle is as fresh an artist at 78 as at the peak of his fame...
Since then, its original three sponsors have increased to ten, and the station claims a peak audience of about 165,000 viewers (Manhattan's lone educational channel can boast only some 65,000 viewers during prime time). Who watches? "Mostly housewives," claims a channel spokesman, who are presumed to be waiting up for husbands who are policemen, waiters, elevator operators, janitors, cab drivers-or late, late, late...
...city health department estimated the population at 7,782.000. Contributing a little spot of cheer in the midst of the city's fiscal gloom, officials reported last week that the take from parking meters is on the rise. In March the total came to $726,414, a new peak for any month. That was $207,772 more than in March...
From the Mountain. After that first, promising nighttime test, Keyes and his associates decided to try their diode light at longer range. They set up shop on the top of Mount Wachusett, a modest peak (alt. 2,006 ft.) 34 miles from Lincoln Lab. The first long-distance experiments were not successful, mostly because of hastily assembled equipment. After many months of work, an improved transmitter pointed at Lincoln Laboratory from Mount Wachusett. The tiny gallium arsenide diode, only 0.01 in. in diameter, was placed precisely at the focus of a 5-in. reflecting telescope that concentrated its infra...
...show, in effect, plunged the U.S. realist tradition temporarily in the shadows. It was not until the 1950s, when the powerful wave of abstraction reached its peak, that the U.S. asserted itself strongly on the international stage. But if the show shattered Ashcan hopes of becoming the dominating force in U.S. art, those who called the U.S. provincial were obviously passing judgment too soon. From the older generation of Americans in the show, Albert Ryder's paintings live on to haunt posterity. Of those who were in their middle years, Walt Kuhn went on to do first-rate work...