Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...innkeeper's son, raised in the small town of Stolp, Pomerania, young Grosz spent more time over dime novels than art until he was 14. Then he managed to peek in on a playmate's pretty aunt as she was undressing. Says Grosz: "The image of the naked, Rubenesque woman pursued me and has continued to do so to this day." Grosz went on to art school, where he could peek as much as he liked...
...mannered Francis Dahl has never been syndicated. But for his collections of reprints (LeftHanded Compliments; What! More Dahl?), he would be unknown outside New England. This week, in his fourth book (Dahl's Boston; Atlantic Monthly Press-Little, Brown; $2.50), he offered the world peripheral to Boston another peek at "the American Athens." This time Dahl had a collaborator: cheery, pipe-smoking Charles W. Morton, associate editor of the Atlantic Monthly...
...clues to his master's condition were simply "[his] color, the tone of his voice, the tilt of his chin, and the way he tackled his orange juice, cereal, and eggs." He got F.D.R.'s valets to pass on to him any pertinent details. He learned to peek unobtrusively at the height of the presidential workbasket and "the wash" (F.D.R.'s name for the countless documents that required his signature), to estimate the hours of work the President had before him, and to lay plans accordingly. He came to recognize the types of people who encroached...
Author Meets Critics (Wed. 10 p.m., Mutual). Saloon Editor Earl Wilson defends his new "book," Pike's Peek or Bust. Critics: New York's ex-Mayor Jimmy Walker, Stripteaser Gypsy Rose...
Clare Boothe Luce took a breather in her fight for civilian control of atomic energy, gave her House colleagues a peek at the shape of things to come. Minnesota's Representative Walter H. Judd started it all by observing that radioactive elements might be used to transmute the human species. While they were about it, suggested Mrs. Luce, let's transmute all women into Lana Turners. As for the male prototype: "a very large head, one eye, an ear bent permanently to receive a telephone call, one hand with only a thumb and forefinger so it can sign...