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...subjects and U.S. paintings of foreign subjects. The James McNeill Whistler oil of London's waterfront was chosen because it is a great Whistler. Scottish Painter John Syme's oil of John James Audubon was purchased because it is a fine portrait. An early acquisition was a pencil-and-sepia drawing, The Apotheosis of Franklin, by the French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard...
...over the next two years. The table below compares present rates on various income brackets with proposed rates. The left-hand column shows taxable income in thousands of dollars. The rates apply to married taxpayers filing joint returns. All that remains is for the taxpayer to get out his pencil and figure how much he will be saved-if the reduction ever actually becomes...
...hobnob with the rich and famous and sprinkle his conversation with first names of peers, maharajahs and Cabinet ministers, the suave, artistic osteopath would go to any lengths, or depths. A man of unbounded vanity himself, he flattered others' egos with facile pencil portraits, with a gleeful flow of gossip, and a magical ability to cure the aches and pains of famous friends' famous friends...
...averaging $265 to send their children to "private" schools, including a handsome new high school in Farmville, the county seat. Most of Prince Edward's 1,725 Negro children get no formal education at all. The Michigan team found youngsters of seven who are unable to hold a pencil or make...
...many enemies of Haiti's Dictator Francois Duvalier were lined up in a row, the man in front would be Clement Barbot, 50, a onetime friend and devoted lieutenant. Short, wiry, with a pencil-thin mustache, Barbot organized "Papa Doc's" dread Tonton Macoute, his secret police; he was the chief's personal bodyguard, supervised the regime's tortures and executions-and was himself tossed into jail for 18 months when he seemed to be getting too ambitious. After his release last year, Barbot launched a campaign of terror against his old mentor. To Haitians...