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...avoids interviewers, has a hearty dislike of being photographed with his chunky Japanese military advisers, but last week a snowstorm kept him overnight in the port of Tientsin and Correspondent A. T. Steele of the New York Times, visiting Yin's capital of Tungchow, found a Yin subordinate, plump and beaming. Chung Tun-fu, in a state of garrulity almost unheard of among Chinese politicos of any complexion. Plump Chung professes to be a great-nephew of Manchukuo's Premier General Chang Ching-hui. Blabbed...
When the picture was half finished, faithful Hendrickje Stoffels (much more plump in life than in the film) died. Rembrandt was too affected to finish it. In the summer of 1665 Harmen Becker, a pawn broker of Amsterdam, came to press the painter for 537 guilders. Pawnbroker Becker discovered in the studio the still unfinished picture of Juno. Pawnbroker Becker had an eye. He promised to take something off Rembrandt's debt if Juno were finished and turned over to him. Rembrandt complied and, once delivered to Pawnbroker Becker, Juno disappeared for many years...
Year ago the little art museum of Bonn on the Rhine cleared out of its cellars a collection of pictures that had been gathering dust for nearly 30 years, put them up at public auction in nearby Cologne. One grimy picture of a plump young woman in a gilt crown and scepter went up on the block and was knocked down for 700 marks ($300) to Dutch Dealer David Katz. Back to Amsterdam, after 270 years, the picture went. It was cleaned and instantly recognized as the original Juno-a bargain at $250,000. In search of some such price...
...some reason we invariably find little girls much more demure than little boys--especially when the little girl is just a plump cluster of rumpled blonde curls and two dimpled red cheeks...
...Congress costs $100,000. Entry fees total $218,000 ($5 apiece from each contestant for each event) of which $145,000 will be distributed as prizes. Last week in the 212th Coast Artillery Armory, equipped with banners, grandstands, 28 brand-new alleys and a midway, New York's plump little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia bowled the first ball. It rolled ignominiously into the gutter and Congress was in session...