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...amber hair, aquamarine eyes, and a figure of better than semiprecious quality. He has a resolute jaw, the physique of a football hero, and a smile navigators could find their way home by. Both look too good to be true, as if they stepped off a billboard or out of a department store window; perfect, full-scale replicas of any of a number of American dreams. Instead, Ann and Lloyd Hand answered a different casting call. In December Lloyd accepted a bid from the President to succeed Angier Diddle Duke as the Chief of the U.S. State Department Office...
...Billboard's chart of bestselling 45 r.p.m.s, a record called Married Man appeared a fortnight ago in 104th place, between Bewitched and Somewhere...
With the rise of the Nazis, Beckmann began painting triptychs, turning his medieval altarpiece form into a public billboard. His first, Departure, peopled by dismembered captives, masked lords and indifferent servants, was done during the first year of Hitler's rule. It was Beckmann's Guer nica, his disgust at the terror then brutalizing his own country. By the time he had fled to Amsterdam in 1937, the Nazis had removed 509 of his works, declared decadent, from German museums...
Died. Sam Cooke, 32, Negro rock-'n'-roll singer who sold 10 million records (You Send Me, Kissing Cousins) in nine years, last spring advertised his appearance at a Manhattan nightclub with a 20-ft. by 100-ft. billboard that proclaimed "Sam's the biggest Cooke in town"; of bullet wounds inflicted by a motel proprietress when the singer burst in on her half-clad; in Los Angeles...
...whether Miss Worthen is just trying to honestly relate what the narrator might think, or undercut "beatific" with the billboard buddha to tell us something about Laurie or the narrator or both, are important matters about which only her editor knows for sure...