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...Blow for Bobo. Early in the game Ruark had learned the nuisance value of heaving a rock at a greenhouse-if it was not too big a greenhouse. When he went to Washington, B.C. in 1936, he had a degree from the University of North Carolina, hitch in the merchant marine, and $4.25 in change. A copy boy's job gave him his toe hold on the Scripps-Howard Washington News. In a few months (and after ( few staff shakeups by Editor Lowell Mellett) the cocksure young Irishman was the paper's top sportswriter. One day he accused...
Last fall he returned to the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance in Washington, waited his chance at a columnist's spot, and got set to make a big noise. "I looked around," he says frankly, "for the biggest rock I could find to throw." His article on how returning G.I.s were shocked by American women (their high heels, their long red nails, their awful hats) drew 2,500 letters and Roy Howard's roving...
...toiled up the heights discovered no key to the mystery. The plane had ploughed into a steep cliff, 50 feet below the top of the hill, had vanished almost as completely as if the fire-blackened rock had opened and engulfed it. There were a few pieces of metal, few larger than a man's hand. Fifty feet from the point of impact lay a golf club and a child's toy train...
There was only one possible method of burial. Sober-faced workmen packed 300 pounds of dynamite to the cliff, tamped it into the rock, set it off. An avalanche rumbled down. As had been done after the recent Newfoundland crash of a Belgian Sabena airliner, a Catholic priest, a Protestant clergyman and a Jewish rabbi read burial services from a plane which circled overhead. Then the wilderness fell silent again...
...seemed as though the prize jury (a museum director, a critic, an artist) liked a little of everything. The prizewinners included Abraham Rattner's Picassoesque, blazing red and yellow Place of Darkness; Gregorio Prestopino's rock-solid study of a train stalled in a flood; Sydney Laufman's impressionistic Road in the Woods, which looked as though it had been daubed on with dirty cotton; Gladys Rockmore Davis' sugar-sweet ballet painting, Pink Tights. Somehow the jury agreed that an almost unknown Californian named Boris Deutsch deserved the $2,500 first prize-for his ragged, muddy...