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Josephine Baker, 43, irrepressible U.S.-born chanteuse, was rehearsing for her first postwar Folies Bergére. The angular grace, the crossed-eyes mugging and full-throated hollering seemed like the old Jo, even under considerably more costume than the girdle of bananas which first made her the light brown toast of Paris 23 years...
...staying ahead of Ford; Buick's Ivan L. Wiles, 50, a tall, greying statistician who moved up from comptroller into Red Curtice's job; Oldsmobile's Sherrod E. Skinner, 52, a dark, heavyset, prim engineer; and Pontiac's Harry J. Klingler, 59, lean, angular and eager, a bow-tied salesman who always has one more funny story up his sleeve when Wilson runs...
...Ulen's swimmers carried off nine firsts in nine events Saturday as they walloped Columbia, 61 to 14, for their fourth straight victory. The Lions, even in their own multi-angular pool, could do no better than three second places as they went down for the fourth time...
...stories that no one knew he had written, working at the dull routine of the Custom House to provide for his family, and emerging in his early middle age ... to take part in a contemporary world he had scarcely known existed." Says Robert Cantwell: "Such a portrait, with its angular shadows, its El Greco distortions . . . is in itself an interesting product of the American imagination ... but I found it less and less like Hawthorne the more I learned...
Georgia O'Keeffe spends half of each year in Manhattan and the other six months in New Mexico's canyon country -an equally steep and angular land. She has painted both homes with appropriate simplicity. Her Manhattan oils (many of them done from a window of the midtown Hotel Shelton) were pavement-hard and needle-sharp...