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...paints sand dunes, dilapidated beach shacks, blistered city sidewalks and budding trees. Most of the time her subjects become misty almost phosphorescent fantasies. Sometimes sne turns sharply realistic and does a meticulous study of a battered window shade or a pair of old shoes. One of her best: Emmett Kelly, a sympathetic portrait of the sadeyed circus clown...
...problems-from the "homusicku" (homesick) Japanese boy who cannot eat fried eggs, to the Indian who refuses to shower in the nude ("I shall wear my swim suit"). For such students, Claremont found that drills on grammar and pronunciation were beside the point. "In six weeks," says Dean Emmett Thompson, "we've got to give them a complete course in Americana...
...real facts finally began to filter through. Talk of piston superiority stopped abruptly when an F80 shot down the first MIG-15. The Eighth Fighter-Bomber Group put out of action 504 enemy tanks, 540 flak guns, 441 locomotives, 5,800 trucks in 22 months. Major General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnel's 22nd Bombardment Wing proved that a B-29 SAC unit could pack up, carry its own supplies 5,000 miles across an ocean, and be in action five days after receiving its orders to move. And it was obvious that SAC squadrons in the U.S. stood...
...RICHARD EMMETT BERLIN...
...empire from foundering in its Depression crisis, stepped into the presidency of the Hearst Corp. in 1941 and bossed the empire's reorganization. Long a bachelor, he married Bronxville (N.Y.) Debutante Muriel ("Honey") Johnson in 1939, now has four children; Bridgid, 12; Richie, 11; Christina, 4; and Richard Emmett Jr., 4 mos. He is active in Roman Catholic lay circles (a Knight of Malta), an admirer and friend of Manhattan's Francis Cardinal Spellman. In the empire, subordinates both respect and fear him. He bombards underlings with memos signed with his unmistakable trademark, a big "D." Nervous...