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...life that plump, periwigged and pecunious Elihu Yale had lived by the time (1718) he dispatched a gift of ?562 worth of goods to the struggling colonial college in New Haven, Conn, was not by any means all light and verity. Yalemen have long suspected this about the onetime Governor of Madras. But being pretty true blue themselves, most have followed the advice of Historian Robert Dudley French, '10, that "loyal sons of Yale . . . not question too closely the sources of this nabob's wealth." Last week, from Warwick, England came word that someone was not only questioning...
They did not know Phyllis. She was unmoved by the offer. At last the Communists told her she could take her children and go "as an act of grace." Last week, accompanied by the three little Sisperas, Phyllis, looking plump and happy, arrived at the Amsterdam airport, a free woman. Readers of the Daily Express had not been prepared for what happened next. She flew straight into the arms of Jaromir Chudy, the refugee who had got the Express interested in her story. Announced Jaromir calmly: "I am going to marry...
Painter Evergood, a plump and tweedy 53, looks as quiet and gentle as Hirshhorn does quick and forceful. The impression is false. Manhattan-born Evergood was educated at Eton and Cambridge, but says he "wasn't fitted for that academic rah-rah stuff." He studied art in England, France and the U.S., came into his own with the Great Depression and the W.P.A. His choleric temperament led him to heel far left for a time, made him a top "proletarian painter" of the 1930s...
...attacks by land-based Marine and Army planes. Then: "A lookout screamed 'Hell-divers!' I looked up to see three black enemy planes plummeting toward our ship. Some of our machine guns managed to fire a few frantic bursts at them, but it was too late. The plump silhouettes of the American 'Dauntless' dive bombers quickly grew larger, and then a number of black objects suddenly floated eerily from their wings. Bombs! Down they came straight toward me. I fell intuitively to the deck and crawled behind a command post mantelet...
WASHINGTON'S Pan American Union quietly put on view last week an exhibition calculated to raise the roof. The work of a passionate, plump and indefatigable Ecuadorian Indian named Oswaldo Guayasamin (pronounced guy-yah-sah-meait, and meaning, in Inca. "white bird flying"), it was as powerful as any painting to come out of South America in modern times. Guayasamin, 35, once studied with Mexico's late master of mordantly bitter painting, José Clemente Orozco. He has a similar social consciousness, amounting to aching rage at man's inhumanities, and a similar range of techniques, from...