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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1955
Page
1
New York artist Lester Gaba debuts a one man show titled Paintings for Gourmets featuring man sized vegetables like orange, asparagus and garlic. The industrial engineer paints edible themes and jokes about eating his models while visitors savor the edible-tinged canvases. He dislikes selling his beloved pieces though the first sold work was a garlic clove.
The article recalls I Gaba, an artist and engineer, who began soap carving as a hobby before World War II and helped spark nationwide soap sculpture contests. His Madonna and Child soap sculpture now centers a shrine in the Church of Corpus Christi, prompting him to insist he is not eager to sell his pictures.
A reader’s puzzle lists clues with numbers for music terms and related words across categories from group names to ship and month abbreviations. Answers link musical terms to common nouns like violin partner wings operatic solo and more.
Father George B. Ford reports to Mr. Gaba that a sculpture near Christi at Columbia University remains in pristine condition. Gaba quips the show may not be the greatest art history event but is described as the first low calorie exhibit.
A correspondent recalls meeting President Harry S. Truman in Caruthersville Missouri after his rise to the presidency. The piece frames Truman as a salty, steadfast figure, noting a prior encounter in Blytheville Arkansas during a cotton-picking contest and a prompt dispatch from New York.
A Native Missourian event at Caruthersville hosts Harry S Truman Day with President Truman meeting local home grown newsmen, joking with reporters, and sharing a piano sing along with church women. The next day he awarded a farm lad $50 for winning the Truman Handicap on a plow horse.
Public notice states that William Bitwood is executor of an estate in Linn County Iowa. Creditors must present claims promptly to the undersigned in the clerk of the district court, with authenticated documents. All debts due to the estate should be paid immediately to the executors.
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