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...Grew lean while he assailed the seasons...
Four months ago Sir Henry Gurney, Britain's High Commissioner in Malaya, was murdered by jungle Communists. Last week the British appointed a new High Commissioner to take his place: tall, lean, Anglo-Irish Sir Gerald Templer, one of the scrappiest fighters and toughest administrators in the British army. Winston Churchill had him fly the Atlantic to be looked over before being given a job which will require tact as well as toughness...
Poised near the starting gate, awaiting her turn, the girl showed only one touch of tension: her classically lean features were set firmly as she clenched...
Contrasting to Klee's cubism and abstraction is the sculpture of Gerhard Marcks. Unfortunately, Allied bombing destroyed most of Marck's work, and it is practically impossible to gather together a representative sampling. A majority of the forms shown--cast in bronze--are long, lean, and austere. There are, however, one roly-poly figure called "A Dutchman" and a very appealing ceramic of two lovers kissing which looks like something Picasso might have translated into a third dimension...
Printed on softly highlighted gold chloride paper, the photographs showed with equal clarity Paris' elegant mansions and lean-to shanties, her fashionably dressed strollers and her ragpickers. Among the finest: a warmhearted study of a blind organ grinder accompanying a bright-faced young street singer, deadpan views of the cluttered windows of a toupee maker and hairdresser, sailor-hatted moppets at play in the Luxembourg Gardens, a plump bakery girl in leg-of-mutton sleeves pushing her wicker cart, a crew of pavers at work on a Paris street...