Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Artists are seldom modest folk. They have enough troubles without trying to bridle the human vanity that, likely as not, feeds their art. But 47-year-old Painter Isabel Bishop is an exception to the rule. "Sometimes I think I've got nerve," she cries, waving her long bony hands in the air, "to paint...
...wait for business to step up to its horseshoe-shaped gem counter, but goes out after it with salesmen who range all over Texas. Any Texan who strikes it rich can expect to hear from a Linz salesman about the time he buys his first Cadillac. In their modest little sample cases the salesmen might carry a fortune in jewels. To stay out of the way of thieves, they travel under assumed names, never get too clubby in the club cars, and use a code to communicate with the home office. None has ever been robbed...
...Compass will start out on a modest 24-page scale, pointing its needle to what Thackrey calls "the non-Communist left." Working as publisher, editor and managing editor, Wallaceite Thackrey thinks he can make money on 65,000 circulation and whatever advertising he can get. His editorial staff of 25 will include Medical Writer Albert Deutsch and Washington Correspondent I. F. ("Izzy") Stone, both survivors of PM and the Star, whom Thackrey harbored at the Post. The Compass' sport editor will be Stanley Woodward, onetime head of the New York Herald Tribune sport staff, lately editor of the short...
Milton's own plans are a little more modest. Anxious for a new crack at an old failure, he will probably make a movie this summer if he can get a deal that will give him some control over the picture. He has thought about starring in a show next fall on Broadway, where he has $30,000 in a forthcoming revue. Next month he will start a daily 400-word syndicated column in more than 50 newspapers. He is getting ready to parlay his television winnings into a TV producing company, a TV school and, for tours...
Died. William H. Luden, 90, whose modest homemade candymaking boomed into big business when, in 1900, he mixed a menthol formula into his candy and made the first menthol cough drop (he sold out 27 years later for $6,500,000); of a heart attack; in Atlantic City...