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tribune About Tcoplf 2 Scene at From 6 Ranch Family 3 Bailey 11 Book, Music and Art News 12,13 Women's section MINNEAPOLIS, SUNDAY, JUNE 7, Childhood Preserved to $500 fHmneapofe i Ot-L-OR-r if -AWT i i- If 4 ft rt lly Helen Prcus Minneapolis Tribunt Staff Writer profession. Pictures of four of the artists appear on this page. Helen Baxter has been doing children's pictures for 30 years. After studying in New York and Minneapolis, she began portrait work using neighborhood children as models. Now she is doing portraits of the children of parents she once sketched as children.

Mrs. Patty Plant, daughter of well-known portrait painter, Frances Cranmer Greenman, has studied here and in the east with famous artists. However, she says she has learned IOVING parents are be-J coming more and more eager to preserve their cherubs' faces in oil and pastels. While creating children's portraits is nothing new for artists, interest in having them done seems to be growing in the Twin Cities. Prices for the finished products vary from about $50 to $500 depending upon materials used, frame and other "extras." In the Twin Cities area, there are at least a dozen men and women who do portraits of children.

Some began it as a hobby. Others started right out in the more about art from her mother than from anyone. WTLLIAM Dietrichson, 5312 S. Irving paints children and adults as well. Trained in Minneapolis, New York and Europe, he also teaches drawing and portrait classes, designs sets for television and has done a painting which will hang in the new Chateau de Paris room at Hotel Dyckman.

Lazo, 2007 S. Sheridan took up portrait work as more or less of a hobby with her children, as inspiration. It soon blossomed into a growing business. Mrs. Lazo's interest in art stems from early days at Northrop Collegiate school.

From there, she went to college on an art scholarship and did further study in Boston, Mass. She works at home where she can keep an eye on Stephanie, 6, Peter, 5, and Chip, 4. Included among other area painters who do children's portraits are Mrs. J. Clarke Bassett, Mrs.

James Bennett," Mrs. C. E. Bayliss Griggs, David Rat-ner and Stephen Rettegi. MRS.

FRANCES Cranmer Greenman, dean of local portrait painters, has painted children (and adults) in New York, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma and other states. In addition to commissioning artists to do a picture of a child, parents can contact the Minneapolis School of Art. Students there are often available to do portrait work. rJ ff 1 7 tvv iiliAvi MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE PHOTO BY ARTHUR HAGER CAROLINE LAZO AND MARY DUN NA VAN, 4521 DREXEL EDINA Young mother consults model as she works vn pastel portrait MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE PHOTO BY JOHN CROFT HELEN BAXTER, 3812 S. THOMAS AV.

Artist at work on portrait of Harry Aldrich conversation piece They're Talking About PWWWWWCWBiaaMMMIMMMMM 'V'H rtlfC? t.o k. i. 'I imhik 1 1 fe' rtLftl If V-M 'ii I il fit lr nKHiri i mni W1 nri wimmium imSSmtii ruin i-in NWA's Don Nyrop, who took over as flight steward serving food and beverages to passengers when one of the cabin crew became ill during a flight. (Few aboard knew it was the airlines prexy juggling trays or that he came out 75 cents short.) Columnist Ann Landers, in town last week jangling a charm bracelet. On it are bangles, baubles and beads from Supreme Court Justice Douglas, Bishop Sheen, Sen.

Humphrey, and her husband. (To him, she's known as "Heaven The new rug on the living room floor in the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Rood the splashy and splendid handiwork of designer Bittan Valberg of Ramdala, Sweden. Actor Don Harron who made many friends In Minneapolis while playing the angry young man in "Look Back in Anger" now set for a plump role in the new film, "The Best of Everything." Mr.

and Mrs. Richard Bclew who announced the birth of their third child, bouncing Margaret Alma, with a card reading "Birth of the Belews Part III." Tom Hastings new president and greeter of the Hastings hotel (no relation) who recalled: "That's where my wife, Mabel, and I spent our honeymoon. We were so young and so poor." MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE PHOTO BY CHAPUS BRILL PATTV GREENMAN PLANT, AND OIL OF KATE ELLIOTT, 11310 COUNTY ROAD 13 Finished, framed product in ttrullniitd by Long Lake artht MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE PHOTO BY CHARLES BRILL WILLIAM DIETRICHSON, AND PORTRAIT OF CYNTHIA DORSEY, EXCELSIOR Local wan uilh painting which ntartcd him doing children's portraits I Don't Make Career Out of Grief; Dress Up and Live DEAR ANN: My husband died two years ago after suffering with cancer. I wish I could have been buried with him. My life has no meaning.

I'm 48, considered attractive and have no financial worries. I ve tried to do cnanty ana club work but most things are run by the younger women these days. I don't fit in. My good friends who were so kind at first have forgotten me. Everyone wants an extra man.

No one wants an extra woman. Several weeks ago I went on a "date" with an old friend whose wife passed on four years ago. I felt so guilty enjoying myself I couldn't wait to get home and look at Phil's picture. I spend your remaining years in sorrow and sadness. He'd want you to dress up, travel a bit, laugh again, and find joy in living.

This does not moan you love him less. It means only that you've met the challenge and found the courage to pick up the pieces. You signed yourself "One Alone" but the truth is you have plenty of company. There are millions of widows in America who are facing the future bravely without a partner. You can, too.

Life is for the living. DEAR ANN: My wife doesn't trust me. We've been married 14 years and have three children. I don't want a divorce or separate roofs. I just want my wife to believe In me.

We were married young and I admit I was a little foolish for the first few years, and she caught me, but I haven't been out of line for a year. Now I can't get her confidence. Sunday on the way to church she pulled out the ashtray In the car and found a cigaret butt with lipstick. She doesn't smoke. I'd been bowling with the boyi the night before and we took a couple of girls home.

That's all there was to it. My wife blew her slack and accused mc of being nut of line again. Is it possible to go to the city hall and take a lie detector test to prove my innocence? THROUGH CHEATING. ANN SAYS: It sounds to mc as if you're married to a lie detector why go looking for one? A man who has been running around for 13 out of 14 years of married life has a lot of proving to do. You'll have to earn her trust by consistent good behavior.

DEAR ANN LANDERS: Our 14-year-old daughter says we are square. Are we? She belongs to a club. Most of the girls are 15 and 16. They're planning a slumber party the first night after school is out. The place a summer cottage owned by parents of one of the girls.

Chaperone the caretaker who Is deaf and 70 years old. He lives in a cottage a block away. My husband and I discussed it at length then told her she couldn't go. She stormed around for hours, accused us of trying to keep her a baby forever and said we were ruining her socially. SQUARE PAIR.

ANN SAYS: Your decision was sound. Stick to if. Slumber parties are fine, when chaperoned by parents. The setup you describe is entirely too free. At times it's hard to say no.

but our children expect us to have better judgment than they have. When we let them pull us around by the nose we let them down and they know it. CONFIDENTIAL to Handsome Harry: Please don't send me your picture. I'm plenty busy turning out columns. I can't run a date bureau, too.

Any guy who is as gorgeous as you say you are shouldn't need outside help. CONFIDENTIAL: "Confused" Everyone pays for the rental of his own tuxedo. To learn the difference between a marriage that "settles down" and one that "gets dull," send for Ann Landers' booklet, "What To Expect From Marriage," enclosing with your request 20 cents in coin and a large, sclf-addtesscd, stamped envelope. don't care if tomorrow comes or not. I'm miserable and heartsick.

Will I ever get over this? ONE ALONE. ANN SAYS: You won't get over it until you stop making a career out of grief. This may not be pleasant to hear but prolonged grieving is a form of self pity. You aren't feeling sorry for Phil you're feeling sorry for yourself. If Thil loved you In life he wouldn't want you to.