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...some of these verse exchanges and thought you might like to read a few samples. For some reason TIME'S story of the Kinsey Report produced a quantity of poems, several on Artist Artzybasheff's cover portrait of Dr. Kinsey. The theme: the doctor's bow tie sprinkled with the Mirror of Venus symbols, the biologist's sign of female. The writers wanted to know where such ties could be bought. The reply they received...
Neither Macy's, Saks nor Gimbels Has a single bow in stock For the Artzybasheff symbols Are exclusive...
Kiss for the Mirror. Misia made her bow in society at 15, when she was invited to a ball at the Belgian court. She wore a pale blue tulle dress with a wide sash and was staggered upon seeing herself in the huge mirror at the palace entrance: "When I realized it was really me, I rushed to the mirror and passionately kissed my own reflection in front of an army of astonished flunkeys...
Briefly noting a table with five official Navy models that students try to identify, we moved on to a replica of a ship's bow standing about four feet high. Because many shipboard accidents occur when NROTC lubbers run afoul of the anchor chain, there is a complete anchor rigging to teach Harvard's sailors where not to stand when the anchor drops...
Paganini treasured the instrument for the rest of his life. He took it home to Genoa, where he devised some of the fantastic technical tricks-such as playing pizzicato with his left hand while bouncing his bow across the strings with his right to create a dazzling cascade of notes-that bewitched audiences all over Europe. On the last night of his life, in 1840, he called for it, and spent some of his last moments improvising on its strings. In his will, he left it to the city of Genoa, for "perpetual conservation...