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...appearance, large, well-built, active, he has white, close-cut hair, a square-set jaw, glittering blue eyes behind pince-nez glasses. He dresses well, conservatively. His voice is hoarse, bluntly eloquent in committee, but weak and flustered on the Senate floor. He smokes, swears profusely...
...fine, six months in prison. Twice married, he has two children (by his second wife), lives in Cornwall, where he conducts a school for children on his own educational principles. Clean-shaven, red-faced, he has thick white hair, seamed cheeks, a trenchant nose, a stubborn but unaggressive jaw, a wide, clear eye. He has written many books. Some of them: The A B C of Relativity, Education and the Good Life, Problems of Philosophy, Proposed Roads to Freedom, Why Men Fight, Marriage and Morals (TIME...
...have originated in Bagdad) are said to resemble early Assyrian wall sculptures. Siegfried, 44, is son of Sir Edward Sassoon, Anglo-Indian merchant whose father-in-law was Baron Gustave de Rothschild. Siegfried's cousin Philip was Under-Secretary for Air. Tall, bony, loosely built, he has a big jaw, nose, ears, hands; speaks usually in a slow, troubled voice. After his country gentleman's education at Marlborough and The House (Christ Church, Oxford), he spent his time mostly hunting, playing cricket, tennis, music, printed a few poems privately. During the War he emerged as one of England's most...
Last victory of the week for the Bevin jaw was the Congress's adoption without a dissenting vote of his resolution demanding that the Labor Government overhaul the Department of National Health. "Scandalous conditions exist!" he cried. "In the winter poor people have to wait so long in queues at the free clinics that they catch worse colds than the ones they came to be cured of. . . . They are constantly made to feel the humiliation of their poverty . . . supercilious doctors . . . shame...
Meanwhile whales figured in news despatches from both coasts. In Shelton, Wash., lumberport, a large black whale appeared one 2 a. m. Mill hands hooked a hawser around its jaw, towed it to deep water. Thereupon it rushed to another part of the bay, was eventually harpooned. In Dover, N. H., a whale became marooned on a mud-flat, was shot by local police. Editorially, the New York World denounced this act, pointed out that while a live whale is no asset to a community, a dead one is a distinct liability...