Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican Senator from Colorado, who retired because of rheumatoid arthritis that confined him to a wheelchair; of pneumonia; in Denver. Lawyer Millikin, who turned to politics from a successful career in the oil business, was a Taft-supporting conservative, a tariff protectionist, a tax expert, and the portrait of a Senator in his look and bearing. His wit was cutting; in a debate he once remarked: "If the distinguished Senator will allow me, I will try to extricate him from his thoughts...
...point, Sally Jay is told off by a buddy: "Take it easy, Zelda. Scotty's been dead for years." Scotty has, and Author Dundy is no reincarnation of the razzle-dazzled Fitzgerald. But her portrait of the Left Bank expatriates, who raise a decorous kind of hell and live in fear of losing their Fulbrights, is caustically funny. One mustached featherwit, who has been bumming around renting himself to novelists as a readymade literary character, fumes because Somerset Maugham wouldn't see him. "But Somerset Maugham doesn't write novels any more," Sally Jay objects. "That...
...technique Bohrod used in a recent self-portrait (see cut), which he painted for Detroit Collector Lawrence A. Fleischman (TIME, Sept. 10, 1956). The miniature of Vermeer's classic painter represents the artist, while the other symbols range through the eye (a glass one borrowed from a doctor), the heart (a piece of an old valentine), the hand (drawn like a 19th century steel engraving) and the mind (depicted by the half walnut, which looks, says Bohrod, like a brain case...
Miss Skinner's program will include "Geneolgy," a portrait of a "blue-blooded Bostonian," and four other sketches, ranging from a mother and her son to a satire on American tourists in Paris...
Billows & Pillows. In his portrait, Author Warner tells a great many of the old Nelson stories, and some unfamiliar ones. Example: as a midshipman at 14, Nelson found himself on an expedition to the Arctic. He tried to kill a polar bear to get its skin for his father. He missed the beast with his first shot and wanted to clobber it with a clubbed musket...