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Flagg's best-known work of all was a World War I recruiting poster-perhaps the only one in history that actually drove large numbers of young men into wartime recruiting offices. Using his own lean, darkly handsome face as a model, he depicted a stern, black-browed Uncle Sam pointing an inescapable, slacker-accusing finger, demanding: I WANT YOU. The Government printed 4.000.-000 copies, shipped them to every city, town and hamlet in the nation...
Bill Kinkaid himself thinks that if he has a secret, it must have to do with breath control. A lean, athletic man, he works out on a chinning bar and punching bag in his apartment, finds that his control is always best after a summer of swimming. In his youth, Kinkaid was a champion swimmer in Honolulu, where his Presbyterian minister father was assigned, but he gave up an athletic career for music, studied with the late great Flutist Georges Barrère. He understudied Barrère in the New York Symphony when he was only 17, graduated...
Poppity-Pop. A lean and toothless old man with a long nose that had been broken twice by fists and at least once by a horse's hoof. Cowboy Kelly hated the 20th century. He went to his last movie in 1929. He would fall dumb when confronted with a telephone, flatly refused to ride in airplanes, insisted that all substitutes for the horse were a danger to life and limb ("They will kill you off! They go like hell, poppity-pop and hellity-scoop"). Like Pieter Brueghel the Elder, whom he admired so much, he filled his canvases...
...cartoons still run faithfully to prisoners or to strandees on lonely islands. "I get awfully sick of prison pictures," admits Art Director James Geraghty, "but they keep coming in, and sometimes they're funny." Profilers who once chronicled the great, the powerful and the eccentric now lean heavily to such personalities as winetasters and Hebrew-language scholars, generally avoid politics...
...grinding poverty they worked hard physically, grew up lean and tough on a Spartan diet packed with starches-black bread (using 85% of the wheat grain), white and sweet potatoes, rice-as well as peppers, onions, tomatoes, peanuts, oranges, sesame seeds and abundant raw carrots. A minimum of food was cooked...