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...sober portraits of Bach, Mozart, Wagner, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven looked down on 1,600 music lovers, who in turn gazed expectantly at the stage. On the stage, seated at six instruments which looked like sewing machines with boxed-in superstructures, were six electrico-musical artists, all of scientific mien and all with electro-dynamic hair except one, who was as slick as a double-wrapped generator coil...
...Animals. My Unconsidered Judgment is an account of Author Busch's wartime investigations of some of the world's most foreign nations : Argentina, the Union of South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, England and Ireland. It does nothing to dissipate their foreignness. Of Argentina he reports: "Solemn in mien, Argentinians are addicted to dark clothes, funerals, and liver trouble. . . . Going about with downcast eyes, they are fussy about floors and pavements. These are elaborately made, in little slippery squares and patterns." Of South Africa: "Large animals, while more numerous than they should be, are not an influential segment...
...joke to its competitors is the Bulletin's speed in getting to press with a big story, getting it to thousands of outlets. But its unhurried mien in other ways gives Philadelphians some chuckles. A few years ago its editors decided on new type, headlines, makeup. Changes were made page by page, week by week. Her public was hardly aware that the Old Lady of City Hall Square was changing her dress...
...Unhurried, taciturn (but capable of awesome anger), he often takes on police rewrites between detailing assignments, bats out an Oxie between editions. Some of the staff's oldsters remark that since he quit drinking and became an active churchman Clem Lane has taken on a somewhat pontifical mien. The opposite is apparent in "Oxie O'Rourke...
...eyes light up behind his pince-nez when he shakes a stranger's hand. But his shyness is so painful that he can never relax. Only a few men like Franklin Roosevelt have known the human warmth that lies behind Morgenthau's deaconish mien. Most others have decided, after a time, that he is suspicious, autocratic, a real cold fish...