| Show 6B GARFIELD by Jim Davis August 8 1986 Friday Ogden People Artist’s secret paintings weren’t all that mysterious tiques story written by editor Jeffrey Schaire Wyeth first met Testorf and began sketching her By STEPHAN SALISBURY Ridde Hr Newspapers — Leonard Andrews the millionaire publisher who bought a cache of suppos- PHILADELPHIA in 1970 when secret Andrew Wyeth paintings and sketches of a woman named Helga found himself at the center of a boomlet of pubedly licity this week was besieged at his Andrews suburban Newtown Square office with questions from Wednesday reporters and broadcasters seeking more information on the 240 nudes portraits and studies that Wyeth reportedly had kept such a close secret that even Betsy Wyeth his wife of 46 years was unaware of them until last year The collection was the subject of news stories based chiefly on an article that will appear in the September issue of Art & An- Several tiques magazine “I didn't expect quite the overwhelming outpouring that I’ve seen here'’ said Andrews who seemed somewhat bemused — if not displeased — by the media attention The subject of Wyeth’s intense artistic interest for more than 15 years Helga Testorf lives a short distance from the Wyeth compound in Chadds Ford in the on Wyeth’s work selected by Betsy Wyeth Wyeth's personal photographer Peter Ralston who photographed the Helga works and served as aison between Andrews and editors at Art & Antiques in Brandywine Valley in southeast- Testorf was not ern Pennsylvania at home this week and the Wyeths who are spending the summer at their home in Maine declined to comment But conversations with several of the principals indicate that the Helga paintings were not quite as mysterious as initially believed Bridge B JAY King Features and STEVE BECKER By Syndicate Here is a problem which means you are lowed to see all four hands South is declarer at Seven Spades and West leads the king of hearts How would you proceed to make the contract assuming best de(PS It’s not an easy probsolve) NORTH A Q 7 fense? lem to V 2 A Q J 4 3 2 A K Q J WEST EAST A 2 A 9 6 5 4 3 V 10 9 8 7 3 K 10 5 — VKQ54 9 8 6 6 5 4 3 2 SOUTH A A K J V A J 6 10 7 AJ You 10 9 2 A A K N ¥6 E W 7 ¥Q AKQJ83 A Win the ace and return forcing West 10 2 K J 6 3 S 6 4 heart king with the the jack of hearts to cover with the queen Ruff with the queen of trumps and lead the seven from dummy finessing the eight of Then cash the of spades discarding the clubs from dummy After cashing your clubs you'll hae two cards — left the six of hearts and seven of diamonds When you cash your fourth club East feels severely pinched because he cannot discard successfully from his holding of the ten of hearts and of diamonds 2 North is obviously try ing to get a club rufT and the problem is to prevent this if possible Judging from his first three plays his hand probably looks like this: 854 A A2 A Q763 V AK43 If you now ruffed a heart and led the jack of spades North would win and return a diamond to his partner A club return would then put you down one To prevent this lead dummy’s queen of hearts and discard a diamond As a result you lose two heart tricks — instead of a heart and a dia- mond but far more important than that you make the contract Whatever North returns you have a smooth ride home Let's say he leads a diamond You ruff and then play the jack of spades When North arranging the forthcoming piece on the collection hedged when asked when he became aware of the Helga series “I want to be cagey about that — OK? — for a lot of reasons” Ralston replied when asked in a telephone interview “Why don't you say this past fall?” According to the Art & An Mar- ried with one daughter she lived across the road from the farm of Karl Kuerner who was the subject of one of Wyeth's series of works For the next 15 years he painted her relentlessly in secret — and often somewhere the magazine hinted at the Kuerner farm Then last year Schaire wrote as Wyeth now 69 lay seriously ill with influenza he told Betsy Wyeth of the existence of this private work and she decided to sell 240 of the Helga works including four tempera paintings nearly 60 watercolors and more than 100 drawings The Helga paintings represent the largest single art acquisition by Andrews 61 a millionaire who in recent years has become increasingly interested in art Last year his Andrews Foundation began sponsoring the National Arts Project a pilot program aimed at fostering artistic involvement among union members and their fami- US ACRES by Jim Davis MARVIN by Tom Armstrong lies Andrews who lives in in suburban Delaware County said he began collecting Wyeths about five or six years ago and also has a number of works by Dutch and English painters Andrews said Wednesday that he had first seen the Helga works laid out on the second floor of a mill at the Wyeth compound on March 15 Fishy ties profitable for Wisconsin trio NEW YORK (AP) — The latest craze to come down the pike is an idea spawned by three Wisconsin high school buddies while hoisting a few at a local watering hole — fish neckties Salmon nruskie tuna trout walleyed and northern pike have been spotted dangling beneath men's chins across the country After only three months the ties retailing for between $15 and $22 have been selling out at boutiques department and sporting goods stores “We get six to eight dozen overnight and they're gone in three four hours” said Nicky Silver a sales clerk at Reminiscence a campy boutique in Manhattan's Greenwich Village Hanging tail dow n as if freshly caught the realistically colored fish stare at passersby with wide dead eyes The muskic version even AMAZING SPIDER-MA- by Stan Lee has teeth Abramoff father of the says the neckwear will $1 million this year Milwaukee-basecompany Ralph Marlin & Co is selling about 5000 ties a week and expects that to hit 30000 by Christ- Mark 'fish ties gross His about mas 8 109 8 7 are declarer with the West hand at Three Spades North leads the king of hearts and shifts to the of clubs South playing the five and then the nine You win with the king and cash the of trumps South discarding the ten of diamonds on the second trump lead How would you play the hand? 2 ‘Helga’ had been on exhibition at the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford — one as long ago as two years Another known as “Pageboy” was pictured in Art & Antiques a year ago in a spread she was 39 PEANUTS by Charles M Schulz wins with the queen and returns either a heart or a diamond you ruff and draw his last trump thus making the contract Say s Who? FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE by Lynn Johnston D WILLIAM ROTSLER Los Angeles Times Syndicate By IT WHS CHANCE FIND HIMSELF Match the letters of the following quotations with the names below The correct answers are at the bottom Four correct answers: excellent none: you dolences Two: good One or have our sincere con- THE HUMAN CONDITION A God is less careful than General Motors for He floods the world with factory rejects B Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall He will end by destroying the earth C There arc two kinds of people in the world those who give and those who ask those who don't care and those who don't dare to ask D Man is a creature doomed to exist in "Time” even though that is not where the action is -- Mignon McLaughlin humorist —Orson Welles -- Albert Schweitzer -- Woody Allen ANSWERS: A: McLaughlin B: Schweitzer C: Welles D: Allen mobile install U9 22nd cenfer WE INSTALL STEREO SECURITY & PHONE :CAR ‘CELLULAR We ll Install It RIGHT Regardless of where you pu'f based the e jt AW0'TVEST "A— Read The Classified To |
