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...that he painted oftenest (see following pages). Her presence borrowed color from the walls of her bath. While fauvism, cubism, even dadaism and surrealism bypassed Bonnard, he kept his eye on nature and his wife's place in it. To many, through the 1930s and 1940s, Bonnard was oldfashioned, a man preoccupied with outer nature rather than inner psychology. His art seemed wishy-washy, facile, banal in its apparent sentimentality...
...will not wear out, with a tale of how each month his landlord pays him rent, with a mere shrug or grunt or monosyllable, he can be a delight. But oftener he struggles, like a boxer, to outpoint his material, or like a magician, to make it vanish; and oftenest, he is mowed down by it. The evening is as unhappy a mixture as an omelet would be made with one new-laid and one quite elderly...
...others damaged in childhood by diseases. They added wing after wing, until now St. Francis has 200 beds, making it the biggest specialized hospital of its kind in the U.S. It is nonsectarian in selection of its patients, most of whom come from poor homes, where rheumatic fever strikes oftenest...
Three Lives. Steve Hannagan spent money as fast as he made it. He liked good living, was a fixture at Manhattan and Florida nightspots, where twice-divorced Hannagan was oftenest in the company of Cinemactress Ann Sheridan. In work & play, he traveled at such a pace that one friend said: "He lived three lives. When Hannagan flew to Africa it was, as usual, on business (for Coca-Cola). There, last week, his speedway pace caught up with him. At 53, in his hotel room at Nairobi Kenya, Hannagan died of a heart attack. In tribute, spoke Roy Howard: "No training...
...year checkup in ten sample areas, estimated last week that from 1937 to 1947 the number of new cancer cases in the country increased 34%. Of this, only 7% was due to the fact that more people were reaching the older age groups where cancer strikes oftenest. Of all types of malignancy, lung cancer was increasing fastest...