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...board chairman of the $221 million Monsanto Chemical Co. In his spare time as an amateur photographer, Queeny spent nine years making 100,000 hard-to-get still shots of wild duck, finally put the best into a 1946 volume called Prairie Wings. Two years ago, with the same perfectionist's zeal, he set about making sound movies of African native and animal life...
...circus train with two animal cars, two circus flat cars, two Pullmans, a job lot of animal cages, and hundreds of feet of tracks. Then a monster crane wheeled on to the set, dangling a huge house-wrecking ball, and reduced the $200,000 investment to a shambles. When Perfectionist DeMille was finally satisfied with the destruction, two cheetahs, three lions, a black panther, a puma, an elephant and a band of monkeys were sent swarming through the block-long wreckage (along with such human specimens as Betty Hutton, Dorothy Lamour and Jimmy Stewart), and the cameras began to grind...
...coaching, also gives a good imitation of the master's golfing technique. But Follow the Sun humanizes its hero mostly by picturing him as an introvert who always wanted, deep down, to be liked by the crowd, despite the emotionless surface he displays as a grim perfectionist on the links. This view of Hogan, which seems somewhat romanticized, pays off with an extra dividend of surefire appeal: the golfer's realization, as messages of sympathy and encouragement pour into the hospital, that people really care...
Enlightened Interns. Mabel Carmon has been variously described as tolerant, courageous, fairminded, flexible, modest, sweet and shy, a machine, a perfectionist, an autocrat. Some staff members would have liked to boot her out the window when they came in as young interns, but they learned to respect her and admire...
...rich enough in detail, he figures, it can be dramatically simple in its overall effect. He once devoted three quarters of a painting to a grassy hillside, spent a month and a half brushing in each grass blade separately "to make it come toward you, that surge of earth." Perfectionist though he is, Wyeth does not aim to please. The warmth, charm and dazzle of color are foreign to him; so are rhythmic arabesques of line. Using egg tempera and tiny brushes, he paints mostly with dull browns, greys and blacks, composes his pictures to create a deathly sense...