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...mammoth purchasing, housekeeping and property-managing agency, Mansure wrote that he was resigning for "personal" reasons. He signed himself "Ed." With pointed promptness, the President shot back a letter to "Mr. Mansure," coolly accepting the resignation. From the exchange, outsiders could guess what insiders knew: before Ed had taken pen in hand, he had been summoned to the White House and informed that it was time...
...early drawings the Classical and Italian influences are most clear. The head of Niccolo da Uzzano done after Leonardo shows unusual restraint and severity. The expression is matched by later drawings of two Roman busts but these are done with a more decorative and expressionistic use of pen and ink. Problems of foreshortening and uncharacteristic inhibition in proportion reflect youthful weakness in one or two drawings, but we have in the study for the figure of Christ, "Raising of the Cross" already a drawing of exceptional merit. All parts of the body add to the general momentum. There is power...
...Kkuko Toguri d'Aquino, more infamous as Tokyo Rose, whose seductive broadcasts in World War II aimed at demoralizing Allied forces in the Pacific but actually entertained them, wound up her ten-year treason stretch (with time off for rosy behavior) at the Federal women's pen in Alderson, W. Va. Although Rose was until her conviction a U.S. citizen (she was born of Japanese parents in Los Angeles on the Fourth of July, 1916), the Federals immediately moved to deport her. This raised a fine legal point: Is Rose now an undesirable resident alien, perhaps...
...meter to measure blood flow directly. It was made by Dr. Henry H. Swain of the University of Michigan from the pinion gear of a discarded alarm clock, stiff wire, rubber tubing, glass bulbs. The tube is inserted directly into an artery. Blood passes through the tube, moves a pen that records on a graph any changes in the blood flow. Cost...
GRUEN WATCH CO., which has had trouble keeping time lately (loss for year ending March 1955: $1,125,000), will try to get back in the black this year by acquiring and operating the 71-year-old Waterman Pen Co. of Montreal...