One evening three weeks ago Admiral Hugh Rodman, U.S.N., retired, settled down in an armchair in his Washington home to spend a placid hour with the placid Evening Star. Suddenly his eyes fell upon a press photograph that brought him smartly to attention, soon sent him angrily scurrying for pen and paper. The picture in the Evening Star was that of a painting intended for the current Public Works of Art Project exhibition in Washington's Corcoran Gallery. Its title: The Fleet's In. Its artist: 29-year-old Paul Cadmus of Manhattan. Its subject: drunken sailors...
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