Word: framed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Science Writer Jack Leonard is too tall for his job. In this day of jet fighters and radar, when a scientist's work may soon be tested in the cockpit, Leonard has trouble folding his 6 ft. 2 frame inside some places where he finds his stories...
Midfielder Dick Post regained the point shortly thereafter and added another at the start of the second frame. He, too, achieved the hat trick...
Last week, after missing ten days of spring practice because of flu and a sprained wrist, Pepper Pot Stanky was back in the Giant lineup as lead-off batter. He came to the plate six times. Hunching his stocky (5 ft. 8 in., 165 Ibs.) frame to its shortest possible height, yapping at the pitcher, fidgeting with his cap and uniform, Stanky wriggled his way into four walks ("I don't care how I get on base"), hit a double, stole a base and scored four runs. Not until the ninth inning, after the Giants had salted the game...
Tobey's paintings appeal primarily to a tight circle of cognoscenti, but the man himself perfectly fills the popular picture of an artist. His leonine head is half snowed under by his untidy white hair; he drapes his bulky frame in handsome Harris tweeds, wears a carelessly slung scarf and paint-splashed shoes. Sympathetic or not, questions about his art generally draw an amiable response. "I can't understand doctors or lawyers," he says. "Why the hell should anyone understand...
...banter with people of our own day who are looking at the painting. The philosophy got beyond me at times but it has to do with Time (represented by a grandfather clock) and white whales and is quite satisfactory; the banter, which I presume is meant to provide another frame of reference for the philosophy (besides the picture frame, which dominates the stage) is decidedly inferior. It is supposed to be humorous and leans heavily on the obvious (the Painter protests to Hawthorne who has stepped out of the picture: "Mr. Hawthorne, if you please! What's happening...