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...very spasmodic. Someone three seats down on my right would say, "Stub Pearson sure is getting knocked flat on his back, Mike, ain't he." (I figured him for the New York, Times). Then from all around would come an answering chorus of affirmative grunts, and the baldish gent on my left would grab in front of me for the binoculars of the man on the right and stare down at the field for a long minute and then add his own assent with a tardy lackadaisical "Yeah...
BALD I ACCEPT AND WOULD NOT BOGGLE SERIOUSLY AT BALDISH BUT BALDING CALLS FOR REBUKE. I KNOW THAT TIME IS PROUD-PERHAPS RIGHTLY-OF ITS OWN VOCABULARY BUT MY LATE AND DEAR FRIEND WILLIAM BOLITHO WHOSE MASTERY OF STYLE NOT EVEN TIME CAN QUESTION ALWAYS WARNED ME AGAINST PRESENT PARTICIPLES SAVE WHERE NECESSARY BECAUSE THEY WERE HE SAID EVIDENCE OF LAX OR LAZY PROSE...
...while delegates talked, Reinhold Schairer and his fellow conspirators retired to a conference room to put their dreams on paper. It was an oddly assorted group: small, baldish John Bell Condliffe, eminent Australian economist now teaching at University of California; Ivor Armstrong Richards (Basic English), of Cambridge University and Harvard; Progressive Educator William Heard Kilpatrick, of Columbia University's Teachers College, and his vigorous wife; dark young Philosophy Professor Max Black, of University of Illinois; stocky young Robert Bauer, an Austrian youth leader; bush-browed Malcolm MacLean, president of Hampton Institute; others of whose practical idealism Leader Schairer felt...
Virgil Garnett Gaines Thomson, 44, is a chub-cheeked, baldish, chirrupy, witty, exquisitely cultivated native of Kansas City. A piano-prodigious only son, he went to the same high school as Playwight-Critic Richard Lockridge, Contralto Gladys Swarthout, Actor William Powell. Virgil Thomson went to Harvard, where he wore kid gloves to scull on the River Charles, and played the organ in Boston's King's Chapel. He spent a year after graduation on a grant from the Juilliard Foundation, then went to Paris, to go hungry. "I hope," he declared, "I shall never again have to earn...
...slums of Buenos Aires, one of Argentina's best-known painters last week opened an exhibition. Thin, baldish, shy Benito Quinquela Martín held his show in the slums because he lived there...