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After many lean years, medicine in Vienna is reviving, and the city is again becoming a good place for foreign doctors to study...
Over the last 20 years, some 40 of Zurbaran's paintings have come to light. His best are flat, angular studies of lean-jawed monks; even his paintings of women seem chopped out with a chisel. Depth and perspective interested him little. One of his finest, St. Serapion, is in the Wadsworth Atheneum at Hartford, Conn...
...week's end more than 27,000 of about 34,000 North Koreans had joined in the breakout. U.S. helicopters and spotter planes watched them on the roads, in the villages; U.S. M.P.s recognized a few of them-lean, young, alert, with shorter haircuts than other Koreans-in the back alleys of Pusan. But most were hidden, methodically quartered among the townspeople. Only a handful were recaptured, most of them voluntarily, apparently swayed by U.N. leaflets and broadcasts declaring that they had "made a mistake...
Carl ("Bobo") Olson is a lean (5 ft. 10½ in.) and hungry-looking; middleweight (160 Ibs.), who learned to defend himself in the tough Kaliki section of Honolulu, where street-fighting is a normal pastime. Paddy Young is a stocky (5 ft. 8 in.) middleweight, who learned his punching as a stevedore on Manhattan's rough & tumble waterfront...
...Missouri, a politician once told a staffer of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "I could answer your editorials, but what can you 'do with that guy who draws cartoons?'' That guy is lean (5 ft. 11½ in., 126 Ibs.) trimly tailored Daniel R. Fitzpatrick, 62, whose drawings in broad charcoal-black strokes have probably been more widely reprinted in newspapers and magazines than any other editorial cartoonist in the U.S. This week, with explanatory notes by "Fitz," the best of his cartoon commentary on the last three decades of U.S. history was published for the first...