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Inside the cubbyhole they found a strange-looking man with a heavy reddish beard and hair hanging down to his shoulders. His clothes were ragged; torn gloves dangled from his filthy hands; he wore long underwear and no trousers. In a matter-of-fact voice he explained that he was Paul Makushak, 33. For ten years, or maybe it was eleven, he said, he had been living in the cramped cubbyhole. His mother, Anna, had fed him by lowering food through the chimney on a clothesline. When his mother became sick and had to be taken to Greenpoint Hospital...
...Lucas Cranach's 16th Century view of the Judgment of Paris was classical in theme only. His illustration of the first beauty contest, in which Paris, after some difficulty, decided in favor of Venus, bristled with Gothic touches. Cranach had presented fast-stepping Mercury with an iron-grey beard, a studious look and a crystal ball instead of a golden apple. He had dressed Paris in the ponderous armor and plumed hat of a German prince, gave him an insufferably arrogant and calculating...
Report from Barber Frederick Harvey, whose shop gives George Bernard Shaw a haircut about four times a year: "Mr. Shaw is getting a little thin on top now, but is still remarkably thick at the sides. He is wearing his beard a little shorter than he used to, but I am never allowed to touch his eyebrows." Shaw likes to chat, and even lets the barber get a word in occasionally, but when the talk begins to bore him, he starts tapping his fingertips together. "I know the sign," says Harvey, "and I shut...
...Council also unanimously approved an executive beard nomination making Lydia Hurd '51 co-chairman of the publicity committee until the end of the term...
...Empson worked in England for the BBC; he married, and then returned to Peking National University, where he intends to stay. Last summer, however, he taught at Kenyon College, in Ohio-a gentle, wiry little man who, as one friend put it, "wandered around in a cloud of black beard, talking animatedly to himself...