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Since he moved to Los Angeles four years ago, Manhattan-born Artist Howard Warshaw, 30, has been fascinated by the crash and crush of its snarled traffic. For him, the city's traffic signals, with their brightly colored blinking eyes, have "the directness and brilliance of Indian pictorial sign language." One night, when he saw the bold white lines of intersection crosswalks framing a wrecked car and its injured driver, he decided that the "awful picture is the culmination of everything . . . the time when everything interlocks," went home to paint...
...Beverly Hills gallery last week, a traffic light and a pendulum railway-crossing signal stood guard at Warshaw's latest one-man show. Most of the 35 pictures, with such titles as Broken Figure and Traffic Signal and Bones on the Street, were focused on the drama of Los Angeles' traffic. Wrecked Automobiles was a low-keyed tangle of telescoped cars stretched along the canvas with the careful arrangement of an abstract still life by Braque. In others, blinking lights and warning barriers stood ironic watch over prone figures with the cleanly severed limbs of antique statues...
...Sleeper. Most Americans think of malaria as a tropical disease, says Leon J. Warshaw in Malaria: the Biography of a Killer, published this week (Rinehart; $3.75). Actually, says Dr. Warshaw, the disease has struck from the Arctic to Patagonia. Once known as "the shakes," it was rife a century ago throughout most of the U.S. Dr. Warshaw, a New York diagnostician, estimates the number of U.S. sufferers today as high as 4,000,000. But no one knows just how many there are, because malaria is a skilled mimic, imitating the symptoms of other diseases...
Granting that malaria is no longer a serious problem in most of the U.S., Dr. Warshaw warns: "It is impossible to predict when a change in climatic conditions, even though temporary, may cause an explosive outbreak." However, the widespread epidemics expected after U.S. servicemen returned from malarial outposts in Africa and Asia have not developed...
...become the most powerful of the antimalarial police. New drugs are being perfected to replace quinine and wartime atabrine. The ideal drug, says Dr. Warshaw, must cure (not merely suppress) all forms of malaria. It must be easy to make and take, and so cheap that hundreds of millions of men, women & children all over the world...