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...resembles the first two, critics have generally agreed that the last was his best teacher. No mere portrait painter, he was able at his best to make a face reveal a biography. Of his portrait of Charles IV and his family Theophile Gautier said that it looked like a butcher's family that had just won a lottery prize. He expressed his restless virility best in etchings and drawings which showed movement - street scenes, bullfights. Blues, browns and greens were his favorite colors but he was not afraid to be brilliant: one of his self-portraits shows a palette...
SANTA ANNA-Frank C. Hanighen- Coward-McCann ($3.50). Full-length biography of the "butcher of the Alamo...
...abetted in this by the Montenegran Princesses, Militza and Anastasia. superstitious daughters of the pot-bellied King Nicholas of Montenegro and sisters of Queen Elena of Italy. The Montenegran Princesses introduced into the palace a series of strange conjurers including the famed Philippe Nizier-Vachot, a onetime butcher's assistant from Lyons who claimed to be the reincarnation of the Prophet Elijah. Elijah fell from favor, died and his successors were swept out when the Princesses went...
First stop on the itinerary of Commissioner MacCormick's raiding party was a cell-block largely tenanted by narcotic addicts who whimpered in their blankets, begged their visitors for "just a little shot." In their littered cells were found electric stoves, pots, pans, hatchets, butcher knives, lengths of lead pipe, needle-pointed stilettos (see cut). Some narcotics were discovered, a complete hypodermic set, blackened spoons in which "dope" had been cooked, needles and gouges with which inmates without syringes gashed themselves to let the precious drugs into their veins. To the police it looked more like a hop house...
...that German rabbis are now urging vegetarianism as the only salvation of the Fatherland's 200,000 Orthodox Jews. Germany's remaining 350,000 Jews are rated nonOrthodox. Up to last week anti-kosher arrests had all been for the crime of smuggling in kosher meat illegally. Butcher Frohwein was the first to be arrested for actual kosher butchery...