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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Veteran singers who for years have been getting by on their voices alone nervously consulted their dressing-room mirrors, daubing on brown face paint (their usual bright red doesn't televise well). To look his best, Tenor Ramon Vinay turned up in the purple burnoose that famed Actor Edwin Booth wore as Othello...
...deep metaphysical thinker. Nicholson himself takes a simpler view. "People are too sophisticated about art," he told a correspondent last week. "They look for hidden meanings. The fact is my six children laugh at my knowledge of mathematics and I know nothing at all about metaphysics. A painter should paint, not theorize. Of course," he added with a twinkle, "it's extremely interesting when a really intelligent man comes along and explains to you what you've been doing...
Girls will cast votes within the week for "the two worst rooms in the house." Lucky winner will have rooms redecorated with new wallpaper and paint...
Dreadful Spew. The Portland was a 291-ft. side-wheeler, trim with white and gold paint, and to Boston's fond eye, as slick as a schoolmarm's leg. On the Saturday after Thanksgiving, 1898, many families were returning to Maine after holiday visits to Boston. Despite storm warnings, the skipper decided he could make Portland ahead of the blow. Shortly after dark, with 176 people aboard, he cast off. The Portland disappeared down the channel into a swirl of snow...
...Navy, says Author Bradley, only admitted defeat when they found that they could not begin to "cool" a ship's exterior by a complete removal, by sandblasting, of every inch of paint, plus the planing off of a half-centimeter of all deck plank. And, to clinch matters, the Radiological Monitors found that even when radioactivity was not registering on ordinary instruments there might still be "free plutonium" present, the "most insidious poison known...