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From knob head to lion feet, Benediction's brutal, bulbous charms were probably lost on the average layman. Most frequent questions by museumgoers: "Is it harping or scratching?" "Why has it got three legs?" If its sculptor, 54-year-old Jacques Lipchitz, had been there to explain, he would have told them that what looks like a third leg is really a simplified drapery...
...compares them with similar lines drawn on a sketch of an ideal face. Then he plans a compromise-somewhere between the patient's original nose and the ideal. Finally he tries it out on a wax cast. In the end, a patient who started with a broad, concave, bulbous-tipped nose will turn into no beauty: he will merely get a nose that is a little less broad, a little less concave, a little less bulbous...
...years bulbous, balding Alex L. Hillman has successfully competed with Macfadden and Fawcett in the lucrative magazine fields of true confessions (Real Story, Real Confessions, Real Romances) , crime (Crime Detective, Real Detective, Crime Confessions) and comics. A onetime book publisher, Alex Hillman has lately pined for prestige...
...ingenious aerial-delivery gadget was announced by the Air Technical Service Command last week. It is a rotary wing, shaped much like an ordinary maple seed, that twirls to earth without benefit of "umbrella" or rigging. The bulbous plastic container, hitched to the wooden blade, can hold 65 lbs. The rate of fall is slightly faster than a parachute's, but the "Sky Hook" is not subject to the wind drift that makes parachuting of supplies inaccurate from high (safe) altitudes...
...Bulbous Economist Ruml of R. H. Macy & Co. and Danish-born Banker Hans Christian Sonne (pronounced Sonny) co-authored a 25? pamphlet (Fiscal & Monetary Policy) for the National Planning Association. Although the pamphlet attacks the whole problem of main taining high employment and vigorous private enterprise, its most striking features are its tax proposals. Economist Ruml slapped it down on the public counter at the psychological moment: just as Congress is preparing to take up the subject, just when many other people's ideas on the subject are coming to a boil...