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Beginning French, they claim, need not be a bering motorization of such dry phrases as "the pen of my father in on my mother's bed." Translations can titillate. In 44 cartoons and 43 free and easy translation, they proved three point...
...term, representatives of rival soap companies vied with each other and passed out samples of their soap in the Hamilton Hall wash rooms, and on another occasion, an enthusiastic fountain pen company man liberally passed out his product...
Globetrotting after the war, Kaltenborn had an interview with Mahatma Gandhi shortly before his death. "He apologized for receiving us in a reclining position, explaining that he was still weak from his recent fast ... I asked Gandhi if he would accept the American ballpoint pen I had in my vest pocket." When secretaries scrambled for the trinket, "turning to me [Gandhi] said with a wan smile, 'You see how I am surrounded by selfish sinners...
...believes, "is a matter of long research and patient waiting." At 58, the pipe-smoking, professorial Frenchman is suspicious of modern art, thinks it includes too many "new movements." He does most of his work at a massive oak table in a quiet, residential district of southern Paris, making pen sketches for future paintings. For every 50 or so sketches, he does one watercolor. Every few years he produces enough paintings to have a show like last week's at Paris' Louis Carré Gallery...
...nearly so good as Loving, his story of life above and below stairs in an Irish castle (TIME, Oct. 10, 1949), or Nothing, his comedy of postwar London manners (TIME, March 27). But it still has many moments of typical fun contrived by Industrialist (brewery equipment) Henry Yorke, who pen-names himself Henry Green, keeps his literary identity shrouded by resolutely refusing his face to the camera...