Word: pencilers
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...months grim-faced Cajun shrimpers practiced on the bayous, in their tricky, pencil-shaped boats. The Cajuns of Louisiana's lower marshlands take their yearly pirogue race as seriously as Kentucky takes its Derby. This week on sultry Bayou Barataria, the 29 strongest paddlers lined up for the start...
...usual method: trace an outline of the child's hand, draw in life-size warts with a red or blue pencil. The child is told to look for "a very faint tingling in [his] warts. . . . That is a sign that they will soon disappear." The child takes the chart home, daily compares the real warts with those on the sketch, notes their shrinkage. Treatment is not confined to the hands. For the nine-year-old daughter of a skeptical dermatologist, Dr. Vollmer was able to charm away a faceful of warts in six weeks...
...Japanese both came early to Paul Jacoulet, whose father was a French teacher in Japan. Says he: "Almost before I spoke, I was glad to have a pencil in my hand." Young Paul used to spend his weekly sen for color prints instead of candy. Now, sitting in a kimono on the floor of his western-style villa (six miles' train-ride from Tokyo), Jacoulet designs his own prints...
French critics have compared her pre-Vittel paintings to those of Douanier Rousseau, her later pencil portraits to Fouquet's. In an age of sweeping confusion in art her pictures were at least disarmingly limited and nicely drawn...
...mouf kind of comic contempt for Negroes. All the Cats Join In is a jukebox setting of Benny Goodman's record, in which orgiastic hepcats and bobby-soxers, mad on chocolate malteds, tear all over the place, paced and sustained by the sketching of a deft, rapid pencil. It will satisfy the young and the benign, sicken those who suspect "healthy" tributes to button-eyed innocence...