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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Savage Beasts. In those days, Chagall walked the streets from noon to nightfall in search of subjects to paint. Back in his room he worked under a single light until, as he wrote, "the petrol lamp outside in the street clashed with the blue of the predawn sky." But few Parisians paid Chagall's nightmarish canvases much heed. Just before the Russian Revolution he returned to Vitebsk, where he founded a school of fine arts...
...Superior newspaper promised the man a gala reception, if he could be identified. The search started yesterday. "We'll find that man," said Robert P. Hyde '51, co-chairman of the Drive, "if we have to examine every one of the 5,000 contribution cards...
Across the U.S., the search was on for a boy with left-parted hair, jug ears, freckles, dimples and a saucer-sized grin. When introduced to the moppet public at Easter, he will be dubbed the living "Howdy Doody Boy," and showered with 500 gifts to celebrate the 500th performance last week of the Howdy Doody Show (weekdays, 5:30 p.m. E.S.T...
Elmer and Elsie are nocturnal. During the day, repelled by too-strong light, they hide in a cozy "hutch" against the wainscoting. When night comes, they venture out in search of the mild artificial light that they crave. Guided by their photoelectric eyes, they creep toward a lamp or the fireplace. When they hit an obstacle they stop, growl faintly, back away and try again at a slightly different angle. Their wanderings often take them all over the house. When they reach a light of the proper intensity, they bask under it blissfully in photoelectric euphoria...
...strong light: the bright, glaring lamp that burns inside their hutch. They scuttle toward it eagerly. If all goes well, they pop into the hutch, where electrical contacts quiet their hunger by recharging their batteries. Not until their run-down stomachs are full do they creep out again in search of gentle light...