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From his smart showrooms appropriately located on the edge of Beverly Hills, Lowitz supplies paintings in any shape, size, color, subject, style or quantity. Last year he sold about 40,000, mostly to hotels, and this year business is even brisker. In a recent typical week he sold 1,166 paintings to a Hollywood studio, a cluster of hotels, a golf club and a Los Angeles eating place called Coffee Dan's; fortnight ago he got an order from San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel for 3,564 paintings (all "very modern," mostly abstract); last week he sold...
...rose each day at 6, and usually made a point of breakfasting with a state delegation. "I am not important," he told a group from Nebraska. "It is the basic belief that is important." To half a hundred Missouri delegates and alternates he used brisker language. "As long as we are in this thing," he said with a grin, "let's stick in it together and throw the stove lid at anything that gets in our way!" "I don't," he told men & women from Oklahoma, "make promises that a bottle of ointment will cure you of everything...
...last of Rodgers & Hart's triumphs together, Rodgers' tunes were never suaver, wittier, more engaging-whether in such favorites as Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered and I Could Write a Book or in such a mocking female duet as Take Him. Seldom were Hart's lyrics brisker, brighter, more uninhibited, enabling Elaine Stritch -for one example-to stop the show with Zip, a spoof of a striptease...
...quartets are about as rare in the U.S. as quadruplets. Last week in Berkeley, Calif, a new one took the air. The Paganini Quartet (so named because their cello, viola, and two violins are Stradivarii once owned by the great violinist, Niccolo Paganini) played Beethoven and Debussy at a brisker than usual clip, but the music was warm and dramatic. Wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's critic, Alfred Frankenstein: "Perhaps never before has one heard a string quartet with so rich, mellow and superbly polished a tone...
Next day, brisker than ever, he bought the first American Legion poppy (which will not go on public sale until May 20), conferred with numerous G.O.P. bigwigs. After each conference, newsmen rushed to the Dewey suite. Did the Governor have any comment on the Wisconsin results? Would he now finally announce his candidacy for the GOPresidential nomination? Each time came the answer: "No comment...