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...master of high-toned cultural dead-panning, he would write solos for automobile klaxons and accents over rests in the scores of his compositions. Antheil always went about his business with a disarming childlike gravity. Like Salvador Dali, he was a man and a salesman of many talents. One of these developed when a European endocrinologist happened to leave a batch of books in his house. Antheil became such an expert on endocrinology (especially criminal) that he made a good part of his living as a writer on the subject...
...Salvador Dali's mustaches performed for Lucius Beebe, who reported in his column that he had noted their "convulsive flutterings and bristlings" in a Manhattan nightclub as the misfortunate artist spied "a pair of absolutely identical handlebars" across the room...
...Salvador Dali (Secret Life of Salvador Dali) had also finished his first novel. Characteristically, he said he had again chosen Dial for his publishers, because the name is an anagram...
...There may be no meat on the platter, No coffee, nor butter for bread; It all seems a trivial matter So long as I have on my head A fluff and a puff and a whimsy Suggestive of Salvador Dali, Irrelevant, flaunting and flimsy, A symbol of feminine folly. . . ." Two publishers wanted to get in touch with Lamartine to persuade him to write a book. Newsreel photographers hammered at Editor Norman Cousins' door, demanding to know M. Lamartine's where abouts. Manhattan newsmen tried vainly to find him. A female reporter from the Louisville Courier-Journal tried...
Other Times letter writers: "No! No victory arches!" "Dali on canvas is at times tolerable. Miss Willoughby's 'Horse Feathers sprouting from a metronome' is intolerable! ... I vote a lusty...