Word: pose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yugoslavia's first marshal, he gleefully indulges his fancy for uniforms (his latest number: dress blues with four-inch red trouser stripes, gleaming ebony boots, visored cap with gold braid and a red star, immaculate white doeskin gloves). But sometimes his public relations men ask him to pose in civilian clothes to seem closer to the masses. After long indecision, Tito finally chose his marshal's insignia (made of felt): a star wreathed in gold laurel. It was designed by a Belgrade tailor who made himself a pair of scarce bedroom slippers from the rejected samples...
...turn of the century, it was an honor to pose for Sweden's Anders Zorn. Among the sitters for Etcher Zorn, a mountainous, walrus-mustached fellow, were: William Howard Taft, Grover Cleveland, Auguste Rodin, Paul Verlaine...
Headlines such as NEGRO HOUSEMAN ARRESTED AS MRS. LOGAN'S MURDERER (which was spread across Page One of the New York Sun recently) pose a question which has long disturbed thoughtful newsmen. The question: when should a criminal's race be mentioned in print? Negroes point out that no paper even in the Negro press ever prints a headline like WHITE KILLER HELD...
...land." Completely unpretentious, he admits to being influenced by other artists: "But that's very good! You can't possibly invent painting all by yourself." Paintings that fail to pan out never discourage Pierre Bonnard. "I always work on paintings that miscarry," he says, "They pose exciting problems. It's good to fail...
...natural enough for such a cat to be: 1) a guest expert on a radio quiz program (so that Smith can have some fun with Information Please); 2) play host at a literary cocktail party (with much kidding of a large lady who is presumably Elsa Maxwell); 3) pose for a TIME cover (still on the unused "bank...