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Offscreen as on, the face looks a little too beautiful to be true, like the kind of adolescent daydream served up in the comic strips. The cut of the face is Betty Boop, but the coloring and expression are Daisy Mae. The eyes are large and grey, and lend the features a look of baby-doll innocence. The innocence is in the voice, too, which is high and excited, like a little girl...
...modernistic, overhanging beams and great windows of the center form an imposing contrast to the school's first athletic venture. "It was a freshman football game against Harvard," Sachar recalls, "and your team had to lend us the pants." The Judges' first team triumphed...
...that week was Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, onetime Republican Speaker of the House, who at 86 was retiring after 23 terms in Congress. One of the agency friends knew that Obie had already drawn Cannon. A hurried exchange of phone calls followed, and genial Obie readily agreed to lend the new magazine his Joe Cannon portrait for its cover. Thus, he was the first of some 70 artists of renown (including Diego Rivera and James Thurber, who did their own portraits) who have drawn the parade of world figures on more than 1,600 TIME covers...
...Look into Gas." After his year with Frankfurter, Graham saw the New Deal fading into the defense effort. He followed, landing with one foot in the Lend-Lease Administration and the other in the Office for Emergency Management. As an ''expediter,'' Graham bowled through bottlenecks and red tape with highhanded ease, won kudos for his role in boosting high octane gas output and lending $8 billion in V-Loans to get defense plants humming. When he lacked the right to check on lagging gasoline procurement, he had OEM's Chief Wayne Coy put a slip...
...president since last fall, Banker Waugh has worked hard to boost overseas loans. Back in the early days of the Administration Treasury Secretary Humphrey, who had to lend the bank its funds, was skeptical, wanted to cut down. But after studying the bank's consistent profits ($59 million in fiscal 1955), he became an ardent booster, hand-picked Waugh and backed his policy of increasing the flow of loans. Now President Waugh is funneling out new loans at a greater rate than last year. Among them: $19.6 million to the Santos-Jundiai Railway in Brazil...