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Whistler's famed Portrait of the Artist's Mother has canonized Mother; but what about Father? The National Father's Day Committee has searched for two years for a painting that would bring Father out of the nowhere into the here. The committee checked over 3,000 paintings by celebrated artists, from Giotto to Grant Wood, last week-with Father's Day (June 15) just ahead-gave up the search...
...dialogue of Fight Camp is not the sort usually provided by soap operators. Characters inquire of one another: "What manhole did you crawl out of?" and express such opinions as "This guy'll louse us up." Its first episode revolves about the widow's search for a fighter of sufficient prowess to prevent her establishment's going broke...
Last week round-faced Dr. George Washington Crile formally unveiled in his Cleveland Clinic a stupendous museumful of stuffed animals and a new physiological theory. The museum was completed last March when Dr. Crile went to Miami, hired a Goodyear blimp, wandered cloudlike over the blue Gulf Stream in search of a manatee. When he at last sighted one in an estuary, he blimped back to shore, boarded a speedboat, bagged it (935 lb.). In Cleveland the manatee, like some twelve score other animals Crile has collected from Lake Tanganyika to Hudson Bay in the past 15 years...
Sister Martina took music degrees at Chicago's Bush Conservatory and the University of Michigan, but until last summer she composed nothing more pretentious than Christmas songs and little choral pieces. Then she began looking for a narrative poem. The Highwayman ended the search...
...five Americans published seven books which made that half-decade the most explosive in American cultural history. The men: Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman. The books: Representative Men, The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, Moby Dick, Pierre, Walden, Leaves of Grass. "You might search all the rest of American literature without being able to collect a group of books equal to these in imaginative vitality...