The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 254, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 2, 1978 Page: 23 of 29
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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Wtdnosday, Auguit 7, 1978
Sir Winston Not Impressed With This Work
MILFORD HAVEN, Wales
(AP) - In the half-century
metamorphosis from young
phinter to old master, Graham
Sutherland has been a pilgrim
to the same ^twisted trees, age-
less rocks and endless tides
which speak to hfttkjn a vocab-
ulary only he can hear.- ^
Sutherland, approaching-^,
is famous and admired. In fact;
many art,critics say he’s one of
the greatest portrait painters of
all time. But his reputation
didn’t faze Winston Churchill, my works thai
He said Sutherland’s portrait of
him “makes me look half-wit-
ted, which I ain’t,” and Lady
Churchill had it destroyed.
Sutherland got his start with
etchings, which were popular
with Americans in the 1920s.
His landscapes - “my outdoor
pictures” - are widely cov-
eted, and museums and private
collectors compete for his
works.
But his success can’t give
and energy, of down his aquiline nose, Suther-
land’ admires the beach’s dain-
time now,
course,”
As spring again bloomed ty seaweed necklace, the yellow
northward from the South of gorse bushes rampaging across
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France to the harsh West Coast boulders as big as dinghies, a think artists ever know whether his best. He used a warts-ana-
of Wales, Sutherland abandoned perfect pink shell smaller than they have talent. And if one’s all style, ma|ung no attempt to
his studio in Menton and follow- his thumbnail
ed the birds back to his spiritu- Distracted only by the gentle
al home of cliffs and coves. bleating of new lambs and the
“Would you like to know
what I’m a little bit about?” he
asks. “Then come with me to
one oNjiy favorite places. It captures the tension of thorn
will give ybi^more insight into trees scratching the sky
PERHAPS THESE NURSE and Lemon sharks — the largest sharks on display in the
United States — are anditloning for roles in “Jaws 3.” Until they become movie stars, I him another 50 years - which
however, the toothy threesome is taking part in studies on the maintenance of sharks in he says he needs "so I could at stick
an artificial environment at California’s Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute, least paint a jjtt|e nearer w|,at Marching,
I’d like to do. It’s a matter of
New Form Of Evidence
Gaining In The Courtroom!
smith College of Art in 1921.
GRANT DIES
Ulysses S. Grant, 18th
president of the United
States, died on July 23, 1885,
portraiture. He painted Some- at tf,e age 0f 63.
any good,
fied.”
one is never satis- hide character or physical im-
perfections. His realism de-
He got his first big break parted from portrait style up to
When Americans developed a that time, and critics heralded
--------------------------passion for etchings in the his stark technique as coming
on the backs of envelopes. He 1920s, well ahead of the British, as close to capturing a human
—- ..... jJ personality as any artist m his-
flapping of herons’ wings, he
sketches on pads and scribbles
words can.” rock's exertion to stay perched
Even the local doggjecognize on a pebble, the constant greed
his compact, slightly 'stooped of waves stretching to engulf
figure as he slogs along- tlje the sand,
gale-carved shoreline and down-y^It was in this country that I
rutted lanes, pursuing an envi- beganjo learn to paint,” says
ronment the art world acknowl- the artists,
edges as uniquely his own. Sutherland .jvas born in Lon-
His small feet are snug in don on Aug. 24,1903, the son of
rubber boots, his silvery hair is a lawyer and civil servant. As
sheltered from the rain by an a young man he almost became
old cap, his body wrapped in a an engineer, but he was -ter;
coat sensible for all seasons, rible at math. His Victorian' fa-
The pain in his arthritic right ther, pre-occupied with security
knee is eased by a walking because of the times in which
they , were living, finally
squatting, hun- allowed him to. enroll in the
ching so low his glasses slide University of London’s Gold-
By 1927, a year aner uc ‘euij
School, he had made enough | ^ p,|n^n| catapulted him
money to marry an Irish worn- jnto ther"front°ranksrof British
an, Kathleen Barry, whom he arys^ jjvjng or dead,
still calls Katharine. j„ 2954 he was commissioned
During World War II, he was by the House of Commons
one of Britain’s official war art-paint Sir Winston Churchill,
ists, recording the bomb dam- The portrait, unveiled with
age, mostly in Wales and Lon-jgreat fanfare and greeted with
don. Soon afterwards, his repu- great shock, touched off a furor
tation grew with several reli- which lasted 23 years
gious paintings and a tapestry
designed for the new Coventry)
Cathedral. Sutherland had con-
verted to Catholicism in 1926. 1
In between those commis-j
sions, he produced a workj
which Itered not only his life
but the traditional^ concept of|
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -
They put James Love on trial
for the gruesome New Year’s
Eve murder of a little boy and
his 14-year-old babysitter, but
thwarted the investigation. But
1 blood enzyme tests showed a
distinction definite enough to
convince a jury.
"We believe it is
they’d never found a murder print in some ways,” says
weapon, had no fingerprints
and couldn’t even suggest a leave from the London'Metro-
plausible motive.
Nevertheless, there
those two drops of dried blood
- one on the former Marine
corporal’s knee-length boots,
the‘other on the door of the
suburban duplex apartment
where the two were slain. .#
It was enough) thanks to*a
tell-tale enzyme. Love was con-
victed and sentenced to 300
years in the penitentiary.
That was in 1974 and marked
one of the first courtroom suc-
cesses of blood enzyme identi-
fication. Now it is used in a
handful of- the nation’s 250
crime labs.
The detective work in Love’s
case was done by the Regional zyme system in a. dry blood
Crime Laboratory in Independ- stain and find its distribution
finger
Brian Wraxall, a serologist on
politan Forensic Science Labo-
ratory at New Scotland Yard.
"It’s individual to a given per-
son. The question now is to
prove it...”
In Love’s trial; the technique
were limited to determining -
in a narrower way than pos-
sible with the A-B-0 typing sys-
tem — that a blood stain could
not have come from a particu-
lar person.
that" a defendant |S guilty,
States to develop and teach
simpler blood identification
techniques. — ;
We take each individual en-
ence. Mo., which had begun.in-
tensive research into blood en-
zyme identification only months tributions and end up with a
before.
Experts studied the blood on
the boot, which investigators
thought might belong to the ba-
bysitter, Sheila Curtright, and
the stain on the door, which po-
lice believed was Love’s.
Miss Curtright and Love each
had the same blood type, which
at one time would have
among the population. Then we
multiply all the population dis-
small percentage - often less
than 1 percent,”
Love’s murder conviction,
one of the first courtroom tests
of enzyme identification in the
United States, resulted from
hundreds of tests at the Region-
‘ al Crime Laboratory, according
to director Gary Howell.
study, the number of labs ac-
quainted with the techniques is
small, and the number using:
the techniques even smaller,
“Blood identification Is the
most difficult item of physical
evidence submitted to a crime
laboratory,” says John Sulli-
van, manager of the forensic
science program for the Nation-
al Institute of Law Enforce-
ment and Criminal Justice.
The institute, a research arm
of the Law Enforcement Assist-
ance Administration, has spent
more than $1 million on serolo-
gy research in the-last seven
years.
Part of the money has gohi
to Wraxall’s work in blood iden-
ALL 4MERION TIRES
“We, cannot say absolutely t i f i c a t i 0 n techniques, That
study, completed recently, is
says' Wraxall, in the United undergoing evaluation. If LEAA
Despite the advances in blood ^e lab.
approves the results. Wraxall
will conduct training sessions
for crime labs.
Despite inroads, the precision
of blood-enzyme work still falls
short of fingerprint identi-
fication, and Metsger says
isn’t likely to outrun finger-
prints as evidence before 1990.
“ We ve got the easy enzyme
systems identified now,’’ Met-
sger says. “The rest will
much more difficult.”
Notes Wraxall: Some prose-
cutors aren’t even aware of
what we've done yet. It’ll be a
process of education. Jetting
people know what we can do in
Reservation System, Per
Se, Working Pretty Well
can supply everything needed
for BWCA trips at about $20 a
day per person, canoe and-food
included.
control1 -access as a means of
ensuring a wilderness ex-
perience.
■ The reservation system, per
se. is working pretty well,"
says Jon Waters, 43, who with
his brother Dan runs one of the
largest canoe outfitting services
in the BWCA. :V._>
"Maybe the’ forest service
went a little heavy in the
spring" telling the public to
make their reservations early,'
he said. But for the most part
it s working.
The system "means I’m go-
ing to have a- wilderness ex-
perience." said Dan Waters, 39.
"it means Cm not going to
bump-mtepoopJ*,';.---------
• This summer my wife and l
made our fifth visit to the Ely
area. We Spent "one week fish-
ing the lakes around Ely for
walleye and smallmouth bass,
the next, canoeing the BWCA,
And Dan Waters was right : not
many people to be seen! once
away from the entry points. "
Barbara ^ind I own jour f
nt. packs, cooking
equipment - all gathered over
a period of years, but outfitters
Canoeing the boundary wa- noise. But if
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" only thing to do is build a fire,
maintain a watch on the food
ELY, Minn. (AP) When
. they tell you it’s “getting
crowded in the Boundary Wa-
‘ ters Canoe Area of northern
Minnesota don’t you believe it, „ . .
’ Each' year more than 100,000 ters isn’t for everyone. It’s not
persons head for the north- like being at a campground or
woods border area between the a local lake. In the northwoods
U.s; and Canada for semi-wil- you need maps and a compass,
derness trips that hold out the and you must know how to use
promise of clean water, cool them, Yormlstr must realize
woods, wildlife and quiet. that you’re on your own
According to the U.S. Forest there are no roads, no doctors, it’s theirs alone till they move.
Service there was a 17 percent anj unless you can flag down a It s a fine tradition and the
decline in BWCA use ml^Fwnr^.+’orest Service pa- most civilized thing about the.
But part of that decline can be trol plane. ,no way out except wilderness,
attributed to the closing of the with paddle-power or shanks
area due to fire danger last mare, - ' rw; HEMINGWAY BORN
vear at a time when plenty of There are black bears and American novelist Ernest
Bears are curious, but are
not ilkpl^to cause trouble. Nor-
mally they, drop in at night and
can be driven away by loud
bear is per-
outdoors enthusiasts normally they do like to visit campsite? Hemingway was bom in Oak
plan their trips. That’s why onejprime piece ojj Park, Hl.yJu1y jl, 1899.
Three years ago the Forest equipment is a'50-foot length of 7"“».rv v
- - Service instituted a system of strong nylon parachute cord. ~ WQl^mONBEGINS
permit reservations aimed at You use it to haul your food n“y VM2, Pope Paul {.
limiting the number of persons pack up into a tree, out of D established the Inquistion
going into the BWCA at any reach of any hungry bruin. I m Rome.
~ given point. The aim was to -
and move the campsite in the
morning.
In the BWCA it's traditional
that once a party sets up camp
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FRANK RAY HARJO (left) is one of the nation’s 255,060
"househusbands,” men who keep house full time while
their wives bring home the paychecks. Harjo, a Creek
Indian, agreed to switch traditional roles because he
considers wife Susan’s>b with the Native American
Rights Fund more important than anything be migbUJo
to earn a Hvidg. Thefr five-year-old son Duke (right)
seems happy with the Arrangement - though be
occasionally calls Frrnp "Mommy and Suzan
“Daddy.” .J'
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 254, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 2, 1978, newspaper, August 2, 1978; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1075019/m1/23/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.