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This ten-year-old baseball captain had the same problem that plagued many of his elders: he needed a good lefthand pitcher, a hot infielder and a power hitter. In Denver, or anywhere else, such a trio is hard to find. But suddenly the captain's furrowed brow unfurrowed, and he snapped his fingers. His neighbor, "Al" Hessel, aged 9, could pitch, field and bat with the best of his teammates. Al was the triple threat he was looking for. There was only one drawback: Al was a girl...
...Chemists come mainly from "the lower middle class ... are seldom rebels. [Their] politics are usually a non-violent conservatism." For recreation, they enjoy listening to music, are "inclined to the classics . . . want more melody and color and less counterpoint . . . Their tastes in home decoration are definitely middle-brow...
...Bill of 1832, set Parliament on its modern course as a democratic house. George Romney's portrait of him almost succeeds in characterizing a sitter whose character was not yet evident. He caught Charles Grey's idealism as well as his pride, conveyed both in the open brow, direct glance and faint curl of the lips...
...study the price situation. Valentine vetoed it. With that slight push Economic Stabilizer Valentine fell and Price Boss Di Salle's promoter, Eric Johnston, moved in. It was Di Salles first fight in Washington, and he came of it without a bead of sweat on his brow. He let nothing ruffle him. "You know how it is here," he said. "We get a crisis every 20 minutes. But the thing that makes it bearable is this-I'll bet you can't remember what last week's big crisis...
Polite Little Smile. One of the most charming portraits in the show is of a beautiful five-year-old in a sailor suit, meant to be Vertès himself. At 55, he looks like a heavy-set Mephisto, whose brow, nose and mouth form three emphatic Vs. "My friends," Vertès admits, "smile a little at my self-portrait and say very politely, 'I don't think it's too much...