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...said that 1 wanted to paint him, his wife told me that he refused to sit to anyone." The obdurate nonsitter was Orchestra Conductor Leopold Stokowski. The painter: Taos, N.M.'s Dorothy Brett, artist, writer, former British peeress, sister of the White Rani of Sarawak (British Borneo), bosom friend of the late British novelist, D. H. Lawrence. This week Painter Brett proved that she could paint Conductor Stokowski whether he posed or not. Her exhibition of 27 paintings in the Santa Fe Museum featured some bombers in level flight, some portraits, but mostly her platinum-haired Leopold Stokowski...
Raising Morale. In recognition of this fact, General McNair went to Fort Bragg, N.C., to pin on the bosom of Technical Sergeant Walter L. Bull, 26, onetime Baltimore steel worker, the first "Expert Infantryman" badge. Such badges will be awarded to foot soldiers who qualify in twelve departments (such as scouting and patrolling, field sanitation, physical fitness, weapons proficiency, courses under fire 30 inches overhead). "Combat Infantryman" badges will be awarded for proficiency in battle...
...demoniac saint who at least helped to increase their dwindled revenues." By 1877 Conselheiro was famous, feared, implacable, "a species of great man gone wrong," ascetic, thin, weary-looking, half dead with his mortifications of his flesh, disheveled hair falling to his shoulders and his beard falling to his bosom...
When one of the Massachusetts Salton-stalls has a big decision to make, he retires to the bosom of his family, and there takes family counsel. The problem is mulled over with the welfare of 1) Massachusetts, 2) the Saltonstalls, in mind...
...stepfather's influence-Solomon Sturges, stockbroker and socialite, was a champion cyclist and a good amateur baseball player. The Attic haberdashery was his mother's idea. Mary Dempsey, who changed her name to Beatricci D'Este and finally settled for Mary Desti, was the bosom friend of Isadora Duncan...