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Another famous Irishman, James Joyce, sat for a series of pencil sketches. "He had a precise and buttoned-up appearance . . . He explained that the poverty of his beard was due to an early accident to his chin, but I did not feel empowered to restore the missing growth. In spite of his cold and formal exterior, I was much drawn to Joyce and, on finally parting with him . . . to his consternation, embraced him in the continental manner...
...mail last week, Jack O'Leary got this piece of medical advice: "Tie your ears together with a piece of string, then hold a pencil in your mouth." As nearly as he can figure, it was the 44,200th suggested cure that he has received since he began hiccuping four years and two months ago. It was no more effective than any of the rest...
...next nine years Louis Patton just stayed home, pursuing solitude on the second floor of his family's white frame house in West Hartford. He passed the time happily, studying anatomy, doing clay sculptures and carving tiny, intricate heads on pencil ends. His doting mother, Constance Patton, stood guard over the boy's privacy, saw to it that he paid no attention to his father, who wanted Louis to lead a more normal life...
...putting together the notes which he has jotted down during ocean voyages and waits in railway and air terminals. The notes are his recollections of 70-odd years-his memoirs, his convictions and his self-vindication. He has finished three volumes and has started a fourth. He writes in pencil, doing a good deal of crossing out and writing over, sitting at a large desk from which, by stretching, he can look down 31 stories on the disordered world...
...point, under French law, the Louvre men could have stood up, cited a financial act of 1926, and bought any painting by simply matching the final bid. But the Louvre had just as much pride as old Gabriel Cognacq. They never so much as raised a pencil...