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From the sprawling Consolidated Aircraft Corp. factory on Lindbergh Field a huge flying boat waddled down to land-locked San Diego Bay one day last week. In the bright California sun her slim wing looked absurdly frail, her huge hull with its upswept stern grotesquely fat. Nevertheless, her little band of professional observers knew they were watching a plane designed to be the last aerodynamic word...
Died. Jacob Grant Hollenbeck, 72, assistant passenger traffic manager for the Missouri Pacific Railroad (he had retired 24 hrs. before his death) and father of frail, graceful Musicomedy Hoofer Clifton Webb; in St. Louis...
Last month the frail body of Hirosi Saito, Japan's late Ambassador to the U. S., arrived at Yokohama in state on the U. S. cruiser Astoria. Japan's people were touched. Last week the U. S. battle fleet eased itself through the Panama Canal, sailed into the Pacific, rationed and ammunitioned for long-range action. Japan's officialdom appeared touched. Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita made agreeable sounds to the effect that Japan's partnership in the Berlin-Rome axis was for purely anti-Communist reasons: Japan wanted no part in attacking the Democracies...
Nono. In appearance Joyce is slight, frail but impressive. He stands five feet ten or eleven, but looks as if a strong wind might blow him down. His face is thin and fine, its profile especially delicate. He wears his greying, thinning hair brushed back without a part. Joyce reads and writes sprawling in bed or on a couch but he does not like it known. He is very formal in public, in restaurants prefers straight-back chairs in which he sits bolt upright...
...when George Horace Lorimer became editor of the Saturday Evening Post, Gruger became the mainstay of that magazine. The Post's romantic and period fiction by such experts as Joseph Herge-sheimer and Donn Byrne got half its atmosphere from Gruger's oldfashioned, deep-browed men and frail but credible ladies. Though limited in range, Gruger's draftsmanship and handling of dark and light masses could be compared with the French Masters Daumier and Forain. He never used a model. The kind of cheap cardboard on which he drew with carbon pencil and lamp black...