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...little child, so I painted her that way. Then somebody said, 'Why don't you paint Einstein with his little violin?', and that was enough. Churchill was obvious. He said himself that every baby in the United Kingdom looked like him. Garbo I imagined as a pale green little girlbeautiful always, but I'm sure she was green as a frog. I'd seen so many photographs of the Duke of Windsor, I did not have to look at more, but I did look at the Wally Simpson of today, and because...
...running water, only a hydrant in the yard and two primitive outdoor privies. "Isn't it awful?" demanded the principal. "I won't go down there." The rickety Ola schoolhouse in Henry County was not much better. Plumped in the middle of "an almost treeless field of pale dust," it had only four rooms and four teachers for seven grades and 121 pupils...
...PARENTS OF A 4½-YEAR-OLD SON MY WIFE (FAY GILLIS) AND I CONSIDER YOUR NOV. 27 COVER UTTERLY AND ABSOLUTELY BEYOND THE PALE. NEVER HAVE WE SEEN A MORE INVITING INVITATION TO MURDER BY OUR CHILDREN. IN OUR HOME HOPALONG CASSIDY IS 100% VERBOTEN FOR THAT REASON . . . WE BELIEVE YOU SHOULD NOT ENCOURAGE OUR CHILDREN TO USE GUNS EXCEPT IN THE DEFENSE OF OUR COUNTRY...
...Cancro Joyned." Astronomy helped Princeton Dean Robert K. Root settle one matter that had long tantalized Chaucerians: the date of Chaucer's Troilus and Crlseyde. Dean Root was struck by the passage: "The bente moone with hire homes pale,†Saturne, and Jove, in Cancro joyned were . . ." No astronomer, Dean Root suspected that such a conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter and the moon was no common occurrence. He was right: for the first time in 600 years, the planets had come together in the sign of Cancer in 1385. That, concluded Root, to the general applause of Chaucerians...
...Thus pale, frail, one-eyed Carl Giles, 36, famed cartoonist for Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express (circ. 4,222,000) describes himself in a book of his cartoons just published by the Express. But most Fleet-Streeters-and Express readers-would describe Giles more simply as, next to David Low, the best cartoonist in Britain. Even Americans, often baffled by British humor, think Giles is funny, and his cartoons now appear in 22 Canadian and eight U.S. newspapers...