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<DIV>While I was on the site to vote, I went to look and see if there were any
new Hat paintings up since last time I looked.</DIV>
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<DIV>I saw Pat Davis' latest -- like I don't miss Mexico and the tropics enough,
you can hear sea birds looking at this one, not to mention feel the sand squeak
under your feet with that marvelous wash -- and also got my first chance to
see a work by our hero, Raymond Blum. There are still a few empty squares,
tsk tsk, but check these new works out!</DIV>
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<DIV>And I guess I need to ask some questions, because I figure most of the rest
of you know these things already. I knew The Shadow only as a radio
program which came on too late for children, so I had to tune my old
phonograph/radio combination as low as possible and hope that it would pick up a
US signal later on at night, but doing that got to listen to the creaky sound
and the "The Shadow Knows..........". </DIV>
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<DIV>While I was growing up and where I was, comic books or anything even
vaguely like them were strictly forbidden, and I don't recall this guy in the
Sunday NY Times comics. Wish I knew more about this Shadow, be he four or
five colours -- what a flair with the rhythm you created in the scarf,
Raymond! Made me realize in all the years I enjoyed that radio program, I
never tried to visualize a character for that voice................</DIV>
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<DIV>pat chapin</DIV></BODY></HTML>