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...President Sam Gompers, Woll was blocked by U.M.W. Boss John L. Lewis, who railroaded William Green into the slot left by Gompers' death in 1924. Matt Woll stayed on, a hard and able worker, and a visual standout in his natty garb-he favored striped pants, a gates-ajar collar...
...opening the door a crack to modern art (at least up to 1917) and admitting that "both still lifes and landscapes have every right to develop in Soviet art," Gerasimov also left the door ajar for himself. Privately Gerasimov has been turning out a crop of voluptuous nudes with no social import whatsoever...
...able to produce slightly imperfect viruses that can stimulate the defensive forces of the human body, but cannot start a real infection. Says Dr. Williams: "This is the work we want to get into, and we feel that the door, if not completely open, is now well ajar...
Back at the White House after three weeks, Johnston reported that Jordan "closed the door but did not lock it," while Syria "left the door slightly ajar." That was enough: Salesman Johnston had his foot in the door. He revised his chances from 1 in 10 to 1 in 3. He said he would go back in a few months...
Since he felt that "an artist must also be a personality," he fashioned a personality of his own. He let his hair grow down over his ears, wore a gates-ajar collar, a flowing tie, funereal black hat, and dropped cigarette ashes all over himself. Aspiring journalists began copying his curt prose and his garb. Said the Manchester Guardian: "He taught Fleet Street that a gossip column should be written . . . with more candor than charity. He got up on stilts to teach reporters how to get off their knees in the presence of the powerful...