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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shown for the first time in London was the only known portrait of Picasso, painted at the height of the Cubist movement by one of Cubism's great saints and Picasso's great friend, the late José Gonzales or "Juan Gris" (John Grey). This ex-engineering student said, "The only possible pictorial technique is a sort of flat-colored architecture," used few brilliant colors, painted his Hommage à Picasso in green, brown and grey...
...three picture dealers, then by three more. He picked up an empty cigaret package, cryptically manipulated it under the table, finally brought out a little figurine of a dancer with the remark: "Well, there's the latest Picasso." Amid a chorus of admiring compliments, artist and girl friend departed. The six picture dealers were just on the point of springing as one man for the latest Picasso when the girl returned, picked it up, apologized for having left it, swept away to where the grinning painter watched from the door...
...last week Evie gave up her usual afternoon activities to stand with White House newshounds outside the office of her friend Franklin Roosevelt. When the door opened she tumbled inside first ahead of the pack, and handed the President of the United States a big red apple wrapped in a white silk ribbon. "Is it a McIntosh?" smiled Mr. Roosevelt. "No, I'm sorry-it's a sheep's nose," trilled Evie. "We'll have to try them in Dutchess County," remarked Squire Roosevelt, still smiling, and turned to the business of his press conference...
Today, short stocky Dr. Kelly, with his fuzzy head, broad white mustache and scarred cheeks (he was treated with radium for cancer of the face), is a familiar figure on Baltimore streets. In his lapel he wears a pink rose, sent fresh by an admiring friend four times a week. Below the rose is a large blue campaign button bearing a red question mark. As he meets his friends Dr. Kelly presents them with small reprints from the New Testament, saying, "Here's my card," and when strangers question him about his interrogating button, he invariably asks: "What...
...Kelly approved of Billy Sunday, was a friend of famed Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody, engaged in frequent religious skirmishes with his fellow townsman, Unbeliever Henry Louis Mencken. For many years he crusaded against liquor, prostitution, Sunday movies, gambling, birth control...