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Many Happy Returns. In Montreal, a holiday-bemused printer mixed up his plates, superimposed on income-tax forms a picture of a kewpie doll and the caption: "Happy Easter, Sweetheart...
...Rose, we enclose two pictures. One is of an actual Wellesley girl waiting for a bus to Chelsea (note the Phi Beta Kappa key over the right ear). The other is merely a typical product of our cooperative house at Radcliffe. The wonderful part about this Radcliffe "doll" is that she combines not only the legs of Mrs. Billy Rose and the brain of Miss Wellesley '46 but also she wraps it up very neatly in a 5 ft. 8 in., auburned-haired, 128 lb. package...
...painted deserts strewn with elaborate bones, made her happy sometimes. "There was one drawing that looked so much like me I made him give it to me," she says. "It had a little feather in place of a tail, and eyes that looked like the china eyes of a doll when its head is broken. . . . Tanguy also designed a little phallic drawing for my cigaret lighter which he had Dunhill engrave. It is the smallest Tanguy in the world...
...room, I saw a figure in top hat, tailcoat, and gray morning trousers, standing with his back to me, hands in his pockets, happily dancing a jig. As I watched him, he clicked his heels in the air, and from whistling he changed to singing, 'Oh, you beautiful doll! You great big beautiful doll...
...Point, Ark., she was saved ("fortuitously") from an elopement at 18, whisked off to the University of Arkansas. At the University of Chicago, she studied art with her sister, Elsie. Next year, the two sisters were in New York. One day Dorothy suggested to Elsie that she design a doll, for commercial sale. "It might make us a fortune," she thought. Elsie produced five fanciful little creatures, which they called the Five Little Shavers...