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...sort of phame that Edward Lear was after. A shy, pear-shaped six-footer with a bulging nose and "a beard that resembles a wig," he was a melancholy bachelor who could "blubber bottlesful" over Tennyson's poems. The son of a bankrupt, he began painting for his living at 15. It was as a painter, and not as a writer of "bosh," that he wished to be known...
Arcand, now 48, is a lean, brooding six-footer with an ascetic face and a pencil-line mustache. When I called, he was wearing a pale green woolen sport shirt, brown tie, brown trousers and shoes. In a corner of his small living room were his typewriter and a table piled with pamphlets and books. In another corner was a radio-phonograph with a fair-sized collection of classical records. This room opens into a combined bedroom and studio. On the wall was a large painting of Arcand in a brown shirt. A crucifix was beside...
...eleven years, Claudia never saw her father, and rarely heard from him. He became the Met's top basso, and a great box-office attraction. A handsome six-footer, his pressagents referred to him as "a Roman god come to life, one of the 14 most glamorous men in the world...
...excluded. Two years ago, Crooner Frank Sinatra flew from Hollywood to Gary to try to persuade Froebel High School students to end a strike over Negro pupils; the bobby-soxers squealed with delight but didn't take any of his line of reasoning. Superintendent Lutz, a strapping six-footer who used to be a football player himself, fared no better last week with the Golden Tornado team. Said one player: "We'll go back to school if you transfer the Negroes...
When he went to Washington as Ambassador in 1944, he said: "I have never worn striped pants and I never will." Fellow diplomats got to know him as a genial, hard-drinking six-footer who preferred, in the Spanish phrase, "to talk with his pants off" (i.e., frankly). But he worked well with U.S. diplomats at San Francisco and Chapultepec. In 1946 he resigned in disapproval of President Velasco Ibarra's erratic domestic policies. Last week, Ecuadorians heard that he might not take his Senate seat, but declare himself at once as a candidate for President...