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...work of art because it shows a nude body is an outworn gag, but still good for newspaper copy. Last week Executive Director Harris De Haven Connick of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition, strenuously made that objection to four pieces of Exposition sculpture. No publicity seeker, forthright Mr. Connick objected to other pieces as artistically inadequate, in which he was at least partially right...
...year circulation director of the nation's best-selling daily, the tabloid New York News. The blustering Max Annenberg charged that a Rascoe autobiography. Before I Forget, which called Annenberg "a burly barbarian, endeavoring with conspicuous success to live down his reputation as a roughneck," maliciously defamed "a forthright, honest and faithful citizen [Annenberg] . . . always reputed, esteemed and accepted by and among all his neighbors...
...considered the most noteworthy event in its history since Soapmaker Samuel Fels gave $50,000 to its rat colony. The nourishing estate of the Institute is mainly due to its founder, Isaac Jones Wistar, a hard-bitten adventurer in his youth, a brigadier-general in the Civil War, a forthright and crusty capitalist in his old age. One of the general's great uncles, famed Anatomist Caspar Wistar* of the University of Pennsylvania, had left an anatomical collection. This was the nucleus of the Wistar Institute and Isaac wanted to see it properly housed. When he died...
...radiorate. General Johnson proceeded to a grill room on the 65th floor of the broadcasting building and heard NBC's president, Major Lenox Riley Lohr explain why General Johnson's brand of plain speaking was, at least on the subject of social disease, a little too forthright for radio consumption...
Barbers who are restrained by professional ethics from shaving their customers with anything more than polite firmness would turn green with envy at the forthright way Mexican goat-shearers shear goats. A goat is taken, brusquely by the scruff of its neck and thrown to the ground. The shearer holds it down with his knee while he clips its belly. Patient old goats who have outgrown their tick-lishness lie still; young goats squirm. The goat's four feet have meanwhile been bunched together and tied. The shearer clips as much of its back as he can reach, flops...