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...hair. In Small Girl With Tulips, the sad-looking child was colored a greyish blue, in contrast with the yellow and green flowers. Purely as water colors, the pictures were brilliant and velvety, carefully brushed on Japanese paper soaked in water. They confirmed what Nolde wrote of himself: "The devil lives in his limbs, divinity in his heart. . . . He sees not much, but other men see nothing...
...late, great Adolph Simon Ochs started at 15 as a printer's devil on a Knoxville paper, worked for a while on Watterson's Courier-Journal, acquired the Chattanooga Times in 1878 (when he was 20) with $250 of borrowed capital. In Chattanooga, Publisher Ochs amassed the fortune with which he bought the New York Times 18 years later...
...literature begins on courthouse steps, in general stores where men chaw, whittle and tell tales. With a fond ear for briarhopper speech the Tennessee Writers' Project (WPA) gathered 25 well-chawed, well-whittled anecdotes from the Great Smokies to the levees in God Bless the Devil-(University of North Carolina Press; $2). Their themes are lady-killing fiddlers, horse races, knife duels, preachers, hunting dogs, log-cabin adultery, possums, milk snakes, the witch of Red River who chased brave Andy Jackson back to Nashville...
Bubbling over with spirits, he oozed optimism yesterday afternoon. "We may not beat Roosevelt or Wilkie," he enthused, "but I'm certain we can beat the devil...
...John Bonner's "The Boy-Girl Relationship" attract because they have a charm and lack of pretension that is missing from some of the other stories. Most of Mother Advocate's sons know better, but some of them seem unable to resist looking back over their shoulder at the devil of pseudo-sophistication. Two of the other three short stories, by William Abrahams and Martin Collins Johnson, slip at different moments into this fault. The third, Edward Pols' "Porphyro and the Beadsman," is a tedious attempt at a difficult mental portrait which hardly deserves the lead spot in the magazine...