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...Bristol, Conn...
...sunlight filtering through a great tree in Central Park which a metropolitan art dealer snapped up. The ex-broker found peace in sculpture, modeled a striking bust of a jut-jawed, middle-aged tycoon. The secretary painted a smiling portrait of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on an old piece of bristol board. It has been purchased for the White House. The high-school boy drew automobiles. It got him a job as sports cartoonist on a Manhattan newspaper. The cripple turned out some slashing caricatures of the Four Marx Brothers which Warner Bros, promptly bought for publicity...
...take the Democratic curse off Americans, Inc. Rear Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol, U. S. N., retired, was invited to join. An old sea dog trained to do diplomatic tricks, Admiral Bristol commanded the Navy's base in Wartime England, was high commissioner in post-War Turkey, went to the Lausanne Conference...
...onetime lifeguard at Michigan beaches, he came by his interest in toxophily when he took a job in Wolverine Archery Co. at Coldwater, Mich. He began entering tournaments in 1929, has only lost one since the 1933 National. He now runs the archery department of Horton Manufacturing Co. at Bristol, Conn. He practices two hours a day for six weeks before a tournament...
...being driven in his own car, last autumn Author Priestley fetched a wide circuit through industrial England, busily noting what he saw and felt. At Southampton the great liners made him proud but a talk with a steward made him wonder. The Wills Gold Flake (cigaret) factory at Bristol pleased him. But the suburbs of Birmingham he found "beastly," and the benevolent despotism of Cadbury's cocoa factory at Bournville depressed him. Cutting through the Cotswold Hills he came on Chipping Campden, medieval wool trade centre, now a carefully preserved Arcadia, and Broadway, whose fame as a pretty village...