Bearded, apple-cheeked old Frank Brangwyn of Ditchling in Sussex is Britain's Grand Old Man of Mural Painting. When he told a newshawk last winter that he had had trouble finding a model for a picture of Eve he was painting, a story blathered across Britain's front pages that Brangwyn had called British women hipless. The streets of Ditchling filled at once with outsize women come to show Brangwyn British hips. Last week Painter Brangwyn, 65, and ill but still full of emphasis, was finishing the fourth of four murals for Manhattan's Rockefeller Center...
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