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...girls, giggling." She was married at 18 and kept busy thereafter with a baby, a nanny, a cook, a car, a house in London, a cottage in West Sussex, and, for diversion, an occasional visit to an art gallery. Until last year she had never touched a paintbrush in her life...
Charles V, Habsburg Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, once picked up a paintbrush Titian had dropped and handed it to him with the words, "Titian deserves to be served by Caesar." The female magnificence of Titian's Danae and the male craftiness of his Pope Paul III in last week's show confirmed the emperor's judgment. Philip IV, Habsburg King of Spain, had patronized Diego Velasquez, whose pictures of the king's little daughter, the stiffly costumed Infanta Margareta Teresa, were among the most brilliant and humanly pathetic portraits ever painted...
...should be painting the house in Chicago than off swimming in London. Even when Wally came home with the zoo-meter free-style championship, his dad, a Polish emigrant who speaks only a little English, balked at letting him go to Bermuda to swim again. He stuck a paintbrush in Wally's fin, and spoke one word of English forcibly: "Commence...
...convention wore on, women began arming themselves with water pistols of their own (a favorite weapon: a pistol guaranteed to produce a hundred and fifty 25-ft. squirts) and engaged in duels with their tormentors. A Legion prankster who waved a dry but dangerous-looking red paintbrush in women's faces was clouted with an umbrella, several handbags, and a high-heeled shoe. But the Legionnaires welcomed competition with disconcertingly uproarious laughter, went right on gulping from pint bottles, dropping water bags and emitting an odd war cry: "Hya, Queenie, Queenie, Queenie-best old dog you ever...
Winston Churchill is not the only statesman who gets away from it all by painting pictures. Many a hoarse U.S. Senator and Representative has spent his weekends in ear-ringing silence, imposing, with the mere motion of a paintbrush, his will upon unresisting canvas. Last week some 80 such paintings and sculptures (plus a few by wives, secretaries and friends) were unveiled in Washington's Congressional Club...