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...clifflike face and shrewd, appraising eyes in the portrait were bound to surprise those who remembered Gertrude Stein as the garrulous maiden aunt of modern letters. Picasso had gone all out to record physical solidity and force. Explained Stein in her book, Picasso, published in 1938: ". . . For him the reality of life is in the head, the face and the body, and this for him is so important, so persistent, so complete that it is not at all necessary to think of any other thing and the soul is another thing...
Then, said Drayton, identification papers were switched. Results: for the past eight months Sea Command has been running as Allpulch-usually a long shot, but five times a winner. The real Allpulch has disappeared. At one race in New Hampshire-supposedly Allpulch's "maiden" race-one man cleaned up $30,000 betting on the horse (at 13-to-1 odds) that only insiders knew was really Sea Command...
Under the wing of Holding Carter, Mississippi's forthright Pulitzer Prizewinning editor, three 28-year-old veterans last month launched the Greenwood (Miss.) Morning Star. In their maiden issue they offered readers some pin money: $1 for each week's best news...
Deadeye. In Maiden, Mass., George Ross, tangled in a conveyor belt, chucked tin cans at a wall switch, hit it, shut off the power, saved his life...
...Army, the manufacturer-sportsman commented: "I wouldn't worry about those rudders if I were sure an engine wouldn't conk out. If that happened, I don't think I could keep the plane in the air." Two days later he took off on the maiden test flight; within an hour an engine conked out. The plane crashed, sheared the roof off one house, ricocheted a block further and piled into a $100,000 mansion, which burned to the ground; Hughes landed in a Beverly Hills hospital with a fractured skull, a collapsed lung, a better-than...