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...alive today. Last week a British biography of Watts arrived in the U.S. (The Laurel and the Thorn, by Ronald Chapman). Along with it came a Shavian review in the London Sunday Observer. The book proved that it took six women to give frail, flowing-haired Painter Watts the feather bed existence his art required. Shaw's review proved that one of the six, auburn-haired actress Ellen Terry, means a lot more to 89-year-old Shaw-even today-than she ever did to Watts...
...problem there was getting the railroad cars to the West Coast over the spindly western roads. To do the job, the eastern roads stripped themselves to pool some 2,000 passenger cars. On the Western Pacific, long strings of New Haven and Boston and Maine commuter coaches deadheaded through Feather River Canyon, far from home. Lehigh Valley and Florida East Coast coaches swayed and rattled over the Rockies on the single tracks of the Great Northern and the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific...
First Prince Dimitri tried, but he fell asleep. Prince Vasily fell asleep too. But Prince Ivan snatched one feather from the Firebird's tail as she tore herself from his grasp. "This feather was so marvelously bright that when it was placed in a dark room it made the whole room shine as if it were lit up by many candles. King Vyslav put the feather in his study as a keepsake, to be treasured forever." But the King still wanted the Firebird taken alive. So prince Ivan rode in search...
...Jersey) broke this antifeminine taboo. Into two of its five executive posts of assistant secretary it raised two ex-stenographers: brown-eyed, brown-haired Miss Muriel E. Reynolds, 42, and small (5 ft. i in.) Mrs. Margery M. Porter, also 42, who wears her brown hair in a feather cut. They are the first women ever to become corporate officers in mighty Standard...
...Feather Weather. In Schenectady, N.Y., Weatherman Morris H. Cohn finally discovered why the city's official temperature was always higher than the U.S. weather bureau - a nestful of sparrows was keeping the recording tube warmed...