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...Britain's tabloid warfare, Lord Kemsley's prim Daily Graphic (circ. 753,537) is no match for the racy, zestful Daily Mirror (circ. 4,432,700), largest daily newspaper in the world. While the Graphic carefully minds its manners, the Mirror minds its readers with eye-catching cheesecake and lurid tabloid writing. Fleet Streeters even recall that the Graphic once cropped a picture to show only the head of a bull because Lady Kemsley protested that the entire photo would offend Graphic readers...
Even as a teenager, George Sponsler of North Baltimore (pop. 2,771), Ohio was a prim, strait-laced little fellow. Like his older brother Orville, he stood 5 ft. 5, weighed just 120 Ibs. and had the family habit of sitting up straight on the edge of chairs. Both boys considered it a privilege and an honor to work for North Baltimore's little First National Bank. George swept out the lobby and polished the cuspidors every afternoon when he was in high school, and became a clerk as soon as he graduated...
...year-old man with a prim, severe face flew into Cairo last week, looking like an old-fashioned country doctor making his calls. Carrying his little black briefcase and typewriter, and accompanied by his young-looking (44), smiling wife, Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht has been making the rounds of world trouble spots, prescribing oldfashioned, bitter medicine for economic ills...
Infanta Margarita, the San Diego Fine Arts Gallery favorite, is one of many paintings that Diego Velasquez, the master realist, made of the prim and lonely-looking 17th century Spanish Princess...
...mere bread & butter portraitist. The pictures had a carefree, almost dashed-off look: lots of lively colors, some swift lines brushed in with a spare and sure touch. What they lacked in detail was made up in warmth and spontaneity. In a painting of his young daughter Kate, prim and neat in a party dress, Cox had added off to one side a quick sketch of her playing in the buff which deftly caught the uninhibited side of three-year-olds. Even in a portrait, says Cox, "you're trying for something universal...