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Reagan's target was Drew Pearson; his strategy, counterattack. "He's lying," said the Governor of California. "Pearson shouldn't be using a typewriter. He's better with a pencil on outbuilding walls." How to explain Pearson's attack...
Later, when he had forsaken evangelism for a career as an artist, Van Gogh used the pen and pencil as a way of storing up details or of working out the organization of scenes he wanted to do in oils. In the last ten years of his life, he produced 800 oils and an even larger number of preliminary drawings and watercolors. The process of distilling the essence of dozens of sketches into one painting "was something like an electric discharge," says Vincent W. Van Gogh, his nephew and chairman of the foundation from whose collection the current display...
George is priapistic. He can be very charming about it walking down the Gran Via, carelessly rolling his large head at one woman then another. He wants you to think that one day he made a list of all the vices and then chewed a pencil and circled all those he would practice and those he wouldn't. But heis very, very serious about women. The only ugly things in my life have to do with America and women, he said to me one time. What is a little surprising is that he likes black women too. Many American Negroes...
Harvard's last two winners were in 1965, when Julian S. Schwinger won in physics and Robert B. Woodward in chemistry. Schwinger earned his award with his pencil, resolving a contradiction between relativity theory and quantum mechanics. Woodward was cited for synthesizing several complex chemicals, including chlorophyll and cortisone...
Died. Eddy Gilmore, 60, Associated Press foreign correspondent for 32 years, eleven of them (1942-53) in Moscow; of a heart attack; in East Grinstead, England. Said Gilmore of his Russian labors: "I wrote for the smallest audience in the world, that one censor whose blue pencil ripped my copy-and my heart...