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...first blush to be no scientist at all, but merely a London artist of the 19303 who paints such a conventionally fashionable portrait of his socialite fiancée (Helen Walker) that some of her cultivated friends discern in it "touches of genius." Others recognize it as identical in bloom and brushwork with the work of a portraitist who died some 50 years before. Even when Artist Karell lays aside the palette for a chemist's flask he is no Frankenstein, intent on making a living man out of spare parts of dead ones. He wants merely to preserve...
...They persist in "seeking out the tender shoots of mental illness and nurturing them into full bloom" and translating "moral values into pathological terms...
Grandmother Sophia Jane had raised eleven children. "She wore a stiffly starched white chambray bonnet, with a round crown buttoned on a narrow brim." When the cling-peach tree bloomed in her Kentucky garden, she mused: "I have planted five orchards in three States, and now I see only one tree in bloom." Her numerous descendants and her aged servants thought she was the most wonderful, most terrifyingly efficient person alive...
Company I--Pitchers: Hoekstra and Dill; catcher: Gould; infielders: Donovan, Berra, Fisher, Davis and Bloom; outfielders: Armstrong, Arsulich, Droomers and Delph...
...Economist Beardsley Ruml had scooped C.E.D.-the Falstaffian treasurer of R. H. Macy & Co. had bluntly said it first in July (TIME, Aug. 7). Ruml had also stated that high corporate taxes were more harmful to employment than high individual levies. But C.E.D. did not care that a little bloom was off its peach...