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...richest men in Yugoslavia, and the man who signed the U.S. master Lend-Lease agreement in 1942, Ninchich was a sacrifice in a Cabinet reshuffle designed to "achieve unity among various groups inside the country and to strengthen the Government." His place was taken by another oldster, Premier Slobodan Yovanovich, who announced that General Draja Mihailovich would continue (from inside embattled Yugoslavia) as Minister...
...Manhattan's Art Students League dusted out its classrooms for the opening of the fall semester last week, a spry, round-faced oldster with a head as bald as a pumpkin prepared for another whack at the job he had been doing year in & year out for the past 43 years: teaching U.S. artists how to draw the human figure. The oldster's name, as unfamiliar to the general public as it is familiar to practically every artist in the U.S., was George Brant Bridgman. Teacher Bridgman has good reason to take his teaching duties seriously. Some...
Last week a younger man, a scholar, editor, lecturer, challenged Oldster Treadway's right to sit longer in Congress, accused conservatives of killing the Republican Party. Pundit Raymond Leslie Buell announced that he would run on a one-plank platform: What is wrong with the membership of Congress and what can be done to improve...
...good reason to be bitter. His false teeth and his ship, equally cherished, were on the Atlantic's bottom, tantalizingly close to the Jersey coast. The lights of a Jersey beach resort had silhouetted the merchantman for the Axis submarine that sent three torpedoes crashing into her. Griped oldster (58) James Robertson...
...does another one. Because he finds meticulous draughtsmanship a bore, he doesn't even bother to finish the faces in his figures, leaves them eyelessly blank. But the people in Surgeon Souchon's paintings need faces no more than a poem needs footnotes. Effusive and bubbling as Oldster Souchon himself, they make their point not by depicting anything in particular, but by the sheer joyousness of their color. Says Dr. Souchon: "I like my pictures red hot. The only trouble with color is that...