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...year-old Publisher Snedden, any less dramatic performance would have been an anticlimax to his arduous, four-year campaign to get Alaska into the Union. Not even Governor Mike Stepovich (TIME, June 9) worked harder. Every fall he put out a special 144-page, four-color issue on the glories of Alaska, sent a copy to every member of Congress and to the editor of every U.S. paper with more than 50,000 circulation...
None the worse for wear after three days of greeting some 1,500 social belles at Britain's last palace debutante presentation, Queen Elizabeth II, stunningly garbed in a pale pink satin frock embroidered in a design of roses, and Prince Philip happily returned to less arduous royal duties as they attended the world premiere of the British film Dunkirk at a London theater...
...words. Said he at a dinner of the British Film Academy: "I don't think books have suffered much from magazine competition. I don't see why films, which are, after all, animated books, should suffer from television, which is simply an animated magazine." Later in an arduous week, the Prince scratched himself from a tiddlywinks joust to which he had been challenged by the Cambridge University team. He said with regret that he would have liked to lead his team, the Goons, but "unfortunately, while practicing secretly, I pulled an important muscle in the second or tiddly...
...ready his first painted manifesto, La Grande Jatte, Seurat went daily for six months to the island to sketch and make quick color studies, worked for months in his studio making life studies of the 40 figures he intended to place in his finished canvas. Only after two arduous years did Seurat, then 26, finish the work-thousands of minute dots of paint, some three layers in depth, on a canvas measuring nearly...
...found Bill McCurdy and Ed Stowell, varsity track coaches, in the exercise room atop Dillon Field House. They were in the midst of a long and arduous series of calisthentics that would have done credit to the most fit of their undergraduate charges...