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...anyone had known what the plump, jittery Negro girl was after as she made her search through New York, it would have been easy enough to spot her and stop her. She was only 4 ft. 10 in. tall, wore a long, bright green coat, a firehouse red skirt, flat-heeled loafers and white bobby-sox. But she moved along in street crowds for days, as unnoticed as a chip borne on a flood, and pushed into hospital after hospital without a challenge...
Like Bruegel's work, Resurrection is rich in anecdote. Among other things, it shows a sailor greeting his girl, a crowd raising a tombstone, children reading inscriptions, old folks on all fours, a group gazing ecstatically heavenward, and a plump gravedigger, his work done, surveying the whole scene. Last week Resurrection earned a wide and rather startled audience; London's popular press wrote the painting up as "the picture of the year...
...dreadful news. Grant had been caught, had admitted that he had planned to blow up the plane to collect $55,000 in insurance on his wife and children ($25,000 from the vending machines and $10,000 on each passenger, carried by the airline). Later, Betty Grant, a plump woman with an upswept hairdo, got some more news: her husband had promised to marry a slender, red-haired American Airlines stewardess named Elizabeth Soumela, who knew nothing of his plans to kill his family, and thought his divorce was about to come through. In New York, a 32-year...
...peaceful in Atami one afternoon last week. Visitors were pausing along the white Tokyo road notched in the pine-covered sea cliffs to take in the view. Aiko Nagai, a plump geisha, was landscaping her elaborate hairdo in preparation for the evening's entertainment. Heiji Tomioka, sake merchant, and his son were filling bottles and stone jugs for delivery to the crowded inns. In a warehouse by the docks, Kazuyoshi Kitamura was pouring gasoline from a drum into a five-gallon can. Yoshio Suzuki lounged about, watching Kazuyoshi. Yoshio, a hulking youth, as slow-witted as Lennie in John...
Aiko Nagai, the plump geisha, poked hopefully among the ruins of her house. "All I saved was my samisen [three-stringed guitar]," she said, "but I'm going to entertain at a party tonight. Thank heaven, in our business we don't have to worry so much about equipment...