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...nine children, Dufy had to pinch centimes in his student days. "I concentrated on drawing," he remembers, "because paints were too expensive." That concentration made him a superb draftsman, with a quick, nervous but perfectly assured style reminiscent of Japan's 19th Century master, Hokusai. But Dufy did not begin to paint like Dufy until he was in his 403. He lived on the top of Montmartre, got along by designing wallpaper (see below), tapestries, upholstery and dresses...
...Pinch. In New York, City Statistician Harold Hoffman glumly admitted that the cost of figuring out the cost of living was skyrocketing...
...cubbed for his new job on the Star by pinch-hitting for ailing Wolcott Gibbs in the New Yorker last season. But Lardner's friends wondered how he would find time to cover his new beat. Although he considers himself a free-lance writer, at least four employers consider that they hold a proprietary interest in him. He is a staff contributor (of a sport column) to Newsweek, a staff writer on the New Yorker, a contributor on the new National Guardian (see above), and a veteran, but infrequent, sport columnist for North American Newspaper Alliance. (Newsweek felt...
...matter what they did, producers could not satisfy the increased demand for almost all types of steel. Even alloy steels, relatively plentiful a few months ago, are again scarce. With current allocations calling for 6.2 million tons (out of 66 million tons annual production) the pinch will become painful about November. How much tighter would it get? Some estimates, including ECA needs and other export requirements, put the total set aside at 16 million tons. If so, production of such consumer goods as autos and refrigerators would probably have...
...many a farmer, market days begin at 4 in the morning when the wholesalers show up to buy for other markets. Retailers like the Gauthiers arrive later, and for them business does not get brisk until about 8 o'clock. Thereafter they are seldom without customers, who pinch and punch their fruit and vegetables and ask them to pull open the husks of sweet corn to make sure the kernels are full and firm...