Word: chalkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Walt Kelly, creator and curator of Pogo, the presidential 'possum, will speak at the New Lecture Hall at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, his New York office announced yesterday. Kelly plans to Begin his national stumping tour in Cambridge, and will deliver a chalk talk, free of charge, "to everyone who can take...
...works Leonardo da Vinci left posterity, only one has been recognized as a self-portrait: a red chalk drawing showing a fierce, lion-headed old patriarch with a furrowed brow and burning eyes. Last week an Italian artist and scholar by the name of Lorenzo Ferri insisted that he had found a second. The face of the Apostle Thaddeus, he said, second from the right in Leonardo's famed Last Supper* is none other than that of the painter himself...
...there often hindered him. Had our aid to China been as vigorous and proportional to the size of the problems as our aid to Greece, which had similar weaknesses and corruption, and had Chiang still lost, we could then say that the situation was hopeless; as is, we must chalk up this catastrophe to the Administration's lack of interest...
...everything is different. A girl can't hold up her head unless is is caparisoned in a new and striking hairstyle. Stand on any street corner and chalk up the different styles that march, prance, mince, amble by. Bob follows shingle, and weave follows bob; hair is piled up, tossed down and trampled on, pinned with pins, carefully disciplined or just plain rampant. If any two similar styles walk by you know they belong to twins...
Japan's Masako Katsura, 38, is the first woman ever to try for the world three-cushion billiard title. Masako is cue-tall (5 ft.) and light as chalk (96 Ibs.). But her skill can make three ivory billiard balls do nearly everything but rattle Banzai! She will need all her wizardry for the next fortnight to beat out her nine topflight male opponents. The favored defending champion, 64-year-old Willie Hoppe, who was a billiard prodigy at seven, is still the greatest player of them all; he still practices five hours a day to keep the form...