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...luck takes the angular form of Lauren Bacall, who is cast as a British coal tycoon's bored daughter. It is unhappy casting. The Bacall publicity has plainly pushed the young woman too far too fast. Neither a great beauty nor a great actress, her voice and facial expressions, both limited, soon grow monotonous. She is not even the interesting personality which careful direction made of her in To Have and Have...
...were clamoring for release of soldiers to mine coal (see Wartime Living) and help out in the transportation jam (TIME, July 30). Almost everybody in the capital thought the Army was too big - except the Army. Last week, the scrap was brought to a head by Colorado's angular, crinkly-haired Senator Ed Johnson, a constant thorn in the War Department's side...
Against the walls were stacked scores of the most controversial paintings in the world. The plotters sat in an uncubistic circle. As their breath congealed in the frigid studio air (which Picasso's tall, elegant stove failed to thaw), a multi-planed, reclining nude regarded them with an angular...
Shut Up. Bernard Haggin, an angular musical zealot who looks a decade younger than his 44 years, has been a New Yorker from his lower East Side boyhood, through the College of the City of New York, to his present upper West Side hideaway. There he keeps a super-phonograph, whose sensitive entrails are always getting out of whack, and a Mason & Hamlin, which he has been known to play for bosom friends. On paper he has no facility whatever, but by main strength has made himself a writer of exceptional pith and clarity (Music On Records, A Book...
Utility Furniture cost ⅓ than comparable prewar products. Sixty coupons-the maximum-are about enough to take the emptiness out of a small, three-room apartment. All the furniture is extraordinarily plain-looking, angular, simple, functional. After six months of Utility Furniture the British thought Tennyson's greying grandson a practical and knowing fellow. Some even hoped his designs would be continued after...