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...Boston store has given SPB one moneymaking example. It bought surplus gas masks from SPB. From rubber tubes on the mask, it made bicycle handlebar covers; from the glass lenses it made workshop goggles; by painting the canisters it sold them as powder-puff holders. From what was left it made toy gas masks...
Harvard's crew wore handlebar mustaches (false) and foolish grins. Radcliffe's crew, in white shirts and red ribbons, looked deadly serious. The race was to be a half-mile on the Charles River, down stream...
Inspired Vacuity. The Phaidon Velazquez reproduces 13 of the painter's immortalizations of his royal master's vacuous stare, massy chin and handlebar mustachios which at night he kept in perfumed leather cases. There is also an inspired side show of infantas, royal dwarfs, idiots, buffoons and a little gallery of Velazquez' early, almost photographic genre pictures done in his precourt days when Velazquez used to brag: "I would rather be the first of the vulgar painters than the second of the refined ones." In strong contrast are a number of the passionless religious paintings of which...
...forgery and worse. When the Germans came, he collected a gang of thugs, escaped to the hills, impartially harried Nazis and political opponents by slitting their ears and rubbing salt into the slits. A Greek who recently saw him describes Ares thus: "A swarthy face spanned by a handlebar mustache. ... He scorns rank, wears a uniform of which every piece is from a dead enemy. Around his fat waist he carries half a dozen knives. ... On his head he wears a tall black hat which makes him look like one of Napoleon's marshals...
Died. John Whorter ("Professor") Zeno, 87, "grandfather of parachuting"; near Memphis. As a handlebar-mustached young man in a skin-tight costume he thrilled crowds in the '80s by jumping from ascension balloons. "For the first 400 feet there is no movement on the part of the parachute to open," he said in 1898. . . . It is that first drop that looks hazardous and sometimes, when the parachute is faulty, it is, but not otherwise...