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When Irish-born Colleen Browning first saw Harlem 16 months ago, she was struck by "the long, straight streets, the litter, the children's drawings on the pavement, all the life against the dead-looking buildings." Since Colleen Browning is an artist, she set about painting what she saw, and last week she put 13 pictures on display in a Manhattan gallery. Harlem has been painted more expertly, but seldom with more sympathy or with a quicker eye for vivid detail...
Pipes & Polish. When Wood reached 70, Johns Hopkins refused to let him retire: instead of making him emeritus, the university made him research professor. Today he is still in his laboratory each morning by 9:30, threading his way through a labyrinthine litter of bottles, jars, tubes, pipes, batteries and wires...
...stanza in the 1951 verse likens "Lionel, Lehman, Littauer, Lamont" and several other buildings to "a litter of pups conceivably aired by Hollis and Stoughton...
Many of the offspring of mice put in the chamber were normal, and the seriousness of the defects varied widely even in the same litter, indicating that some mice could resist the injury better than others...
...London failed to find much true artistic classicism. Instead, without the usual nightmarish litter to distract them, critics and gallerygoers were spotting some old Dali shortcomings more clearly than ever. The London Times dismissed Dali's recent work as "trivial and irreverent . . . singularly banal." In the Daily Express, Critic Osbert Lancaster applied the most devastating label of all: Victorian. In his "laborious accuracy and painstaking attention to detail," said Lancaster, Dali reminded him of some "minor academician" of Victoria's Royal Academy...