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...departure: they substituted corners for classical curves and punch for prettiness. Picasso applied their principles to his Montmartre models, but he kept a respect for the realities of the human figure which the Africans never had. His Bergamo sketch was a tense, ebony-hard construction, half model and half idol. With such rough-cut works, Picasso had served notice that he preferred pioneering to perfecting...
Four floors below, Congressman Lodge -a conservative Republican-greeted his well-wishers like a matinee idol, which in tact he had once been. Before entering politics he had appeared in 18 movies, was Marlene Dietrich's leading man in a 1934 picture called The Scarlet Empress. Beside him stood his pretty, Italian-born wife, Francesca Braggiotti Lodge, onetime dancer, whose singing of Italian songs in Bridgeport's Italian quarter had helped her husband in his races for Congress...
Hooked Idea. Before becoming the anonymous idol of her panting fans, Texas-born Jean King was a singer, a movie bit player (Tarzan and the Amazons) and a radio actress. In 1947, marooned in Dayton, Ohio, she went on station WING as a disc jockey. "I was damned lonely in Dayton," she recalls. "So I just hooked onto this idea and talked about my loneliness. And, you know, I found out there are a lot of lonesome people in this world...
...into a battle willingly or with enthusiasm"), refused even to hunt animals. "I had a horror of the Mexican War," he once wrote, "only I had not moral courage enough to resign." From the campaigns fought by Mexican War Generals Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor (Grant's military idol), observant Grant shrewdly unlearned some of early 19th Century West Point's rigidified teachings, e.g., the maxim that an attacking force must be at least three times larger than a fortified defending force (U.S. commanders in Mexico repeatedly attacked such forces when outnumbered three, four or five...
...featured at the Exeter is Carol Reed's "The Fallen Idol," a suspenseful and cleverly-designed mystery piece built around the problem of telling the truth at the right time...