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...plumage was vivid and vulgar-a sport shirt with a palm-leaf motif, sometimes a tie with a bulb-breasted nude. His Stetson sat squarely on top of his head, a cigar grew out of the right corner of his mouth, and he glinted at the world through rimless, hexagonal glasses. Readers of Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express could spot him at a glance: he was "the loud American." For the past nine years he has swaggered regularly through the frontpage, one-column panel drawn by one of England's most popular cartoonists: urbane, grandly mustached Osbert Lancaster...
...Father Burton, Harvard, Class of '03, actually began our work in Cambridge." Father Williams is a white-haired man with plain rimless spectacles. "It was Burton's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Burton of Cincinnati, who donated this very land. Spencer Burton joined the Society shortly after college, and did a good deal of work abroad. He returned to Cambridge in 1912, and began a program of guidance and help for Harvard undergraduates. Since he founded it many Harvard men have served here...
Looking as if he wanted to break into a dance and a cheer, the Detroit Institute of Arts' Director Edgar P. Richardson peered through his rimless glasses at a press conference one day last week and announced: "I am about to tell the success story of a picture." What precise, soft-spoken Dr. Richardson had to tell was news indeed. The small (only 8 ¼-in. by 5 ¼in.) painting that the museum had bought in 1925 for $18,000 had at last been identified. Its painter: Jan van Eyck, one of the most highly valued Flemish artists...
...something like being a Texan). Jaeger regards it as his everlasting misfortune that, when he was born, his parents happened to be in Berlin, deep in the heart of Prussia. "The course Germany took under Prussia's leadership," he warned the Bundestag recently, his eyes flashing behind his rimless spectacles, "ended with blood, tears and catastrophe...
Aboard an airliner droning north from Mexico City to Houston one night last week, a square-jawed man wearing rimless glasses handed his seatmate two typed sheets of paper listing some 60 names. "I think I ought to know these folks," he explained. "Would you check me while I run over the list?" Henry Finch Holland, just nominated chief of the State Department's Latin American Affairs section, thereupon rattled off the names of Latin America's ambassadors to the U.S. and U.S. envoys to Latin America...