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...Hindu epics, and wrote the first 60 volumes of a 180-volume biography of the Hindu god Krishna. One day last October he cried out: "He nath Narayan!" (meaning, "Oh, Lord God," the holy man's only departure from silence). An attendant brought him his Shaeffer fountain pen and paper. He wrote: "If today I participate in an election, it's because my innermost voice bids...
...months in the state penitentiary in 1939 for forgery. And Ward's racing stable, with which he had made a great hit with the local horsy set, was actually owned by Colorado's big-time gambler O. E. ("Smiling Charlie") Stephens, whom Ward had met in the pen. Reporter Phillips turned up another interesting fact: Ward was paying a $500 a month "consultant" fee to Lester Hall, executive vice president of U.S. National Bank, which had made him his biggest loans...
...Pen-palship was not the only thing S.R.L. had outgrown. By adding reviews of phonograph records, art, theater, radio and movies and articles on travel and international affairs, S.R.L. had become more than a bookish magazine. Its circulation had risen from 32,000 to 110,000 in a decade and it was solidly in the black. With last week's issue, S.R.L. officially noted its broader outlook; it clipped the of Literature off its cover title. S.R.L.'s editors wanted to call the magazine the Saturday Review when it was founded in 1924, but the title was then...
Severino's art career began four years ago when, aged seven, he walked off with top prize for Italian entrants at an international children's art show in Milan. Ever since then, Severino's intricate pen & ink studies of such subjects as lizards, snails, fish, insects, flowers, vegetables and bike races have kept right on winning prizes in juvenile art shows at home and abroad. Severino's classmates at the village grammar school in Sant' Arcangelo soon caught the fever, formed a hard-painting little group known as "the School of Severino." Paramount Films...
...formal schooling stopped at 16. Sloan was a poor boy with an itch to make pictures but without much obvious talent ("My sisters and I all drew equally well"). To support himself, Sloan designed calendars and valentines, sold pen & ink copies of Rembrandt etchings. At 21 he went to work for the Philadelphia Inquirer, making on-the-spot news sketches of fires, elections, suicides and parades. The job helped him develop drawing facility, and gave him a down-to-earth philosophy of art: "An artist is a spectator...