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...handsome as to prove that, even in reproduction, fine drawings can give a tactile pleasure in addition to their esthetic worth. De Tolnay's definition of drawing includes some forms of watercolor work, and the whole range of tools -swan and goose quill, silverpoint, chalk, charcoal, pencil. His "Old Masters" range from an unknown Egyptian artist's outline drawing of Rameses IV to a 18th Century sleeping figure by Toulouse-Lautrec. Along the way are such choice items as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's gracious chalk masterpiece Head of a Youth (see cut), and Edouard Manet...
...towards the climax of the proceedings, Art dropped into an audible snooze. When his horrified co-defendants awoke him he reached for a pencil, drew his classical cartoon of contempt of court (see cut) which he captioned "Art Young on trial for his life." After the case had been dropped, the prosecuting attorney (who had had to admit that "everybody likes Art Young") bid for the picture...
...Eberstadt fight (TIME, March 1). Two more dissimilar men than Charlie Wilson and Ferd Eberstadt could hardly have been brought face to face: Wilson, the ambitious doer, the man who came up from scratch; Eberstadt, the polished investment banker, Princeton-bred, Wall Street-trained, the man who did with pencil & paper what Charlie Wilson was used to doing with his hands...
Franklin Roosevelt, six years ago the object of grammarians' tuts for his liking for "like" in the wrong places, escaped another tutting by a blue pencil's stroke. Conning ahead of time the text of a minor Roosevelt speech, New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock encountered "like in many cases," quickly phoned a Presidential aide. The President, reached in time, made...
...white-brick, Spanish-style home near Santa Monica he wakes every morning at exactly 7:30 a.m. He has no alarm clock. Beside his bed, as poets have paper & pencil on which to catch a night thought, he has an adding machine on which he can punch out his own mathematical visions. At 8 o'clock he has his invariable breakfast of one egg, one piece of white toast, one cup of black coffee. Shortly before 9, he walks to his four-car garage, steps into his 1941 black Lincoln Zephyr, swings around a fishpond in his front yard...