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...reproductions in Punch had not done Keene justice. Printed from wood blocks, they were dull and crude compared to the pen & ink originals: flustered old gentlemen and ragged urchins done with fine, soft tones and a master's spare line. Moreover, the public never saw the drawings that Keene did as studies for his cartoons. These were hurried little sketches scratched out on scraps of paper and backs of envelopes: dumpy old ladies sitting spraddled with fatigue, a drunken man slumped in a chair, London swells leaning languidly against a bar. Each took but a few skilled lines...
...Whole Man. In the Rockport (Ind.) Democrat, Jesse L. Garrett, 49, offered $28,000 for a wife, described himself as "not bad to look at, love any kind of fun, and am at home in a hog pen or in a mansion's drawing room...
Most health columns in the daily press are dry-as-dust affairs in which the writer-doctor takes himself, his profession and his pen-patients with equal seriousness. An outstanding exception is the column which runs four days a week in the Providence Journal and Bulletin: never stuffy, often irreverent, it reflects the Yankee horse sense of its author, Dr. Peter Pineo Chase...
...while, when he was eleven, Paolo tried sculpture, turned out amazingly good busts of angelic children. But he soon tired of carving and went back to pen & ink drawings with single-minded attention. Outside art, his main pleasures are horseback riding and, latterly, whippeting around the Tuscan hills in a Fiat. Once during the war, Carrara was shelled and his family hid out for two months in a hillside cave. Paolo spent his time profitably, carving pictures on the walls, caveman style...
...moved into a flossy, Joseph Urban-designed Manhattan duplex apartment and settled down at a 15-ft. semicircular desk. But the Depression had left its mark on facile Writer Brush. She began to analyze her own brittle-youth-of-the-'20s stories, and her once glib pen slowed down and stalled. "When you start saying 'Why?' she explained, "it throws...