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...specialist in nudes, Artist Peirce has a finely sensuous feeling for barns. In the last decade, he has painted a dozen unexcelled canvasses of the light-shot, hay-filled interiors of sunlit barns. But Maine folk would never stand for a naked woman walking around in a cowshed. So Painter Peirce first sketched his barn, then came to Manhattan to locate an appropriate model and paint his canvas...
...Rita Hay worth, wife of pudgy Prodigy Orson Welles, wasn't sure whether she was going to have a baby or not. Various newspapermen said she was; a studio spokesman dated it November. Said Miss Hayworth disarmingly: "I hope it's true, but I don't know...
...rotogravure rube. On weekends he bolts out to his 89-acre farm at Dover, 15 miles southwest of Boston. He knows that his "I'm just a simple Yankee New Englander" is good politics. But it is no pose; on his farm, he puts on old clothes, pitches hay, saws wood, beds down his horses. He "turns over" four pigs a year; sells two, eats two. Last year he sold 1,600 dozen eggs...
...scholar: "Mr. Hull was cordial and courteous, but I left with the same impression that I had when I went in-that the Administration has no foreign policy." New York's Bernard W. Kearney was briefer: "No hits, no runs, no errors." Others recalled an occasion when John Hay was Secretary of State, and conferred with a Chinese minister named Wu. "I talked & talked until the Minister was hazy," reported Hay, "and the Minister talked & talked until I was woozy...
...Francis has been harrying influenza since 1935 when, at the Rockefeller Institute, he first used ferrets to prove that influenza is solely a virus disease. (So far, two viruses have been identified, type A and type B.) In 1941 Dr. Francis found that many people with colds or hay fever have a substance in their noses which makes the virus harmless. He also found that, at least for a while, people who have recovered from flu have protective substances in their blood...