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George Biddle's 45 war pictures were pen drawings of U.S. soldiers in Africa and Italy. His 34 prewar oils were landscapes of California, Texas, Brazil, some still lifes, several portraits. One large canvas pictured a monumental, seated Frieda Lawrence (widow of late great Brit ish Novelist D. H. Lawrence), her chill eyes peering from a heavy face, fringes of her shawl spilling like black blood from...
...Webster: toff, n. A dandy; swell. Brit. Slang...
...foreign policy. "Isolationists" wrongly believed that the U.S. needed no foreign policy. "Interventionists" were merely those who finally realized that the U.S. could not survive without Great Britain and therefore adopted Brit ish foreign policy...
...spacious but well-guarded grounds. The tactful British planted them several miles apart; Messe and Arnim had differed sharply on strategy and were not speaking during the final days. Both are entitled to the stand ards of equivalent British officers living in mess. Thus they will fare better than Brit ish civilians, also better than Rudolf Hess, who is not a prisoner but an interned enemy alien...
Weak Arches Cured. This queen of the current Russian Ballet was born, not in Russia, but in London, and her real name is Lillian Alicia Marks. Her father, Arthur Marks, was a globe-trotting Brit ish mining engineer who went to school in the U.S. and once worked on the Nile's great Aswan Dam. A serious-minded tot, Lillian would probably have embarked on a career in medicine but for the paradoxi cal fact that she had weak arches. To cor rect them she took up dancing at the age of nine. A year later...