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...largest endowment gift was $62,000 from the estate of Dora L. Collison for research in cerebral thrombosis anemia, and epilepsy $150,000 represented the annual Carnegie gift for the maintenance of the Russian Research Center...
Slender, shy Sheila Dora Carstens was born to white parents in color-conscious Cape Town, attended white schools. When she was 17, Sheila's father died. For a while she lived with a colored woman (meaning, in South Africa, of mixed blood) who took care of her, and in 1945 she married a colored man. Sheila's family turned their backs on her. Last year, after her husband died she met Ronald Awood, a truck driver, handsome, quiet, and colored. Sheila and Awood lived together. Then, with a child coming, they tried to get married. But Sheila...
Still in the black mood, Picasso found a new girl, Photographer Dora Maar, and used her pretty face as a starting point for hundreds of grotesquely twisted, hysterical-seeming portraits. When the Germans took Paris, Picasso had fled to the south of France. Shortly afterwards he decided to return. "Simple Nazi soldiers used to visit me," says Picasso, who was considered too valuable to molest, even though Resistance leaders sometimes met at his studio. "When they left I presented them with souvenir postcards of Guernica...
Author Willingham went on to have an adolescent's daydream. Geraldine Brad-show, his second novel, is a 415-page, grab-by-grab description of how a smart bellhop tries to seduce a dumb-Dora elevator girl. It takes time: boy gets girl in bed on page 141; but girl is still standing off boy on page 414. The Willingham method is, of course, one way to keep a reader's attention. Nonetheless,the author sometimes seems hard put to fill space: "You come by here around six. All right...
Highly Profitable. Chic Young has been drawing as long as he can remember. In McKinley High School, in St. Louis, he used to sketch his classmates, and soon after graduation got a job cartooning in New York. He made the big time with Dumb Dora, then sold Hearst's King Features Syndicate on the idea of Blondie. After 1 8 years of drawing Blondie, 48- year-old Cartoonist Young still finds it a chore. To help him meet deadlines, he quit Manhattan in 1939 for the quiet of a small fruit ranch in Van Nuys, Calif. There, he settles...