Word: beaux
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...university means even more. It has the only legitimate theater in town, has the only symphony orchestra, owns the only art museum. Under new President Pearson, it is obviously not planning to stand still. Among its present projects: the building of a new $2,000,000 medical school, a Beaux Arts pavilion, a special school of tropical agruculture...
...Austin, Oveta Culp grew to dark and serious young womanhood. She went to dances and basketball games with the rising young men of Austin (among her beaux: Silliman Evans, now a Nashville publisher, James Allred, who became governor of Texas (1935-38), but most of the time she was too busy for the flapperish goings-on of the day. Old Ike Culp took to carrying a long-bladed, switchback knife in his pocket, ostensibly to pare his nails, but word got around the legislature that he intended to use it on any young man who attempted to get smart around...
...Bright, but no student, she was relieved when she could turn to the real business of her young life-ruling her string of beaux...
Army Wife. Mamie was bright, but she was no student. She sighed with relief when she was through at Miss Wolcott's, a Denver finishing school, and could turn to the real and fascinating business of her young life: ruling her string of beaux. Then, on a family winter vacation in San Antonio, she met 2nd Lieut. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Nine months later, at 19, she was married. She went for a honeymoon visit with Eisenhower's parents in Abilene, Kans., had her marriage's first bitter quarrel - after Dwight refused, in flat tones, to come home...
...Affandi can qualify on both counts. He has never taken a formal art lesson in his life, but after his first big exhibit in London six months ago, the New Statesman's John Berger flatly called him "a painter of genius." Last week, at Brussels' Palais des Beaux-Arts, the critics got another glimpse of Affandi and he still looked very good...