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...scenes of Paris, New York, London and that sport of all caricaturists from Tenniel to Ralph Barton, burlesques of famed paintings. Czermanski's is a subtle satire, the more effective because it relies so little on Distortion. He has a passion for detail. Drawing in a mixture of pencil, pastel and oil paint he builds an effective, hilarious whole by concentrating on a few minutiae: the wrinkles in Secretary Stimson's coats, the gaunt wrists of a Park Avenue doorman, the wild hair and felt slippers of a French bistro waiter...
...Printers' Ink, Eagle Pencil Co. revealed a letter which it had hopefully solicited from President Grover Cleveland at the time of his inauguration in 1893. Wrote shrewd President Cleveland: "Pursuant to my promise I send you by mail with this, the Eagle Penholder and pen with which I have written my in augural address. Of course I do not suspect you of desiring it for purposes of advertising...
...staggered levels off the stairs (to save hall space) are editors' rooms and the morgue. Upstairs is a library dominated by Painter Donald M. Campbell Jr.'s portrait of Briton Hadden as he looked in action (see cut)-coat off, green visor on, big red TIME pencil firmly grasped...
...that he came out holding up one of the fat TIME pencils. Very seriously, almost severely, he said: "I am sharpening a great pencil for a great...
Next day, first thing after breakfast, came "quiet time." Reporters watched The Group members assemble in the sunny ballroom, get out pencil & paper "to take down what God says." Some waited with poised pencils, others took down copious messages. After 15 minutes D. Scoville Wishard said: "Some will want to share what God said." There were many who did, all beginning "it came to me. . . ." Said Jonkheer van Lennep: "God has told me he is blessing this house party." Said Evershed Thompson of the Edinburgh Stock Exchange: "Jesus is here...