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...grew out of a burlesque-show memory. Hirshfield was always having model trouble. For his Lion painting he tried the zoo, pictures at the public library, stuffed specimens at the American Museum of Natural History. He wound up with a cheap, toyshop lithograph, painted a lion with a tailored mane and a bland, human face that could do for a self-portrait of Hirshfield...
Harding & Hootchy-Kootchy. Austin's teammates in the U.S. delegation: ¶| Thomas Terry Connally, 69, Democratic Senator from Texas and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who has a much sharper mind than his flowing white mane, flowing string tie and flowing oratory indicate. ¶ Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg. 62, Republican Senator from Michigan, a harness maker's son, who got into politics via journalism by helping Isolationist Warren Harding write campaign speeches, and who has become (with Secretary Byrnes) the architect of practical postwar U.S. internationalism...
...breath, you name and apologize for Truman-the Man of the Year. . . . One may as well say the flea is king of beasts because he rides in the lion's mane...
...remembers the texture of things - a squirrel's fur, the thickening of a horse's mane in the frost, the glint of armor and the impact of wind on the pennons in the van. The imagery is swift, the pen races the thought, the heart beats time, the invention never falters, but be neath and around all this there is an atmosphere of tender pity, of universal friendliness, of how mellow a wisdom, how golden a simplicity...
Actually John Lewis, having shown again that he can threaten the nation with cold homes and idle blast furnaces by a casual shake of his shaggy mane, was merely content to rest on his laurels for a while. The public interest coincided with his own because...