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...excitement for some individual. Prosecutors have long known that firebugs are often unbalanced and get sexual satisfaction from watching either the fire itself or the extinguishers. Even shoplifters, according to the Washington psychiatrists, are often sexually abnormal, and pilfer objects with some obscure sexual significance (e.g., women who steal fountain pens, men who take gloves...
Springtime for Henry. In the spring, Koerner's work is largely worry. By summertime he has worried into existence a dozen new ideas for pictures, sets out to find landscapes and models that correspond with what he has in mind. He sketches everywhere, with a fountain pen, often returns to make color sketches in gouache. By fall he is ready to start on the year's oils, which he finishes, all more or less together, in January...
Soon after Publisher John Shively Knight bought the Chicago Daily News in 1944, he stood in the plaza in front of the News building with Executive Editor Basil L. Walters and eyed the bubbling fountain in its center. Said "Stuffy" Walters : "When we pay off the mortgage, I'll take a bath in that fountain." Replied...
...last week Stuffy Walters had reason to hope that he could jump into the fountain pool with no beard at all. Barely five years and four months after Knight added the slipping News to his thriving chain,* it had paid off nearly $8,700,000 of its $12,500,000 mortgage, had a commanding lead over Hearst's rival Chicago Herald-American in advertising, and hoped shortly to pass the Hearstpaper in circulation and become Chicago's biggest afternoon paper...
After the ceremony, champagne bubbled from a five-stream fountain at the wedding reception in the rambling Chevy Chase (Md.) Club. The President bypassed the fountain during his twelve-minute appearance, but he did take time, after nudging Bess, to buss the bride...