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...classic Rip Van Winkle, which Wyeth illustrated for David McKay Co. in 1921, moved him to greatness. Wyeth's paintings of young, virile Rip retreating from his termagant wife to spend a day in the hills (opposite), and of old Rip's return after a 20-year sleep of enchantment to find his house silent and deserted (see overleaf), are as classic as the story. They have nothing in common with the works of the great French illustrator Gustave Dore, or with the Englishmen Cruikshank and Tenniel, except genius. In the U.S., no other illustrator ever achieved such...
Potent Arm. Mayor Lawrence appeared on the municipal scene just when Financier Richard K. Mellon (Mellon National Bank, Gulf Oil, Alcoa) and a platoon of lesser tycoons were preparing to rip their dowdy old city apart and rebuild it. Lawrence proved to be a valuable political ally. He ordered strict enforcement of smoke-control ordinances, pressured Democrats at Harrisburg and Washington to pass laws and approve appropriations that helped build new roads, bridges and dams. His reward: the business community's gratitude. Four years ago Lawrence's Republican opponent was not even invited to participate in the face...
...Anyhow, note followed hot note and Miss Jomes began thinking of turning in her steam iron for a marriage manual. Until one day tragedy struck. x428Fy's shirts arrived as usual, but when Miss Jomes turned to the slot she found it sewn-up. Frantic, she tried to rip it open. No luck. She could feel something thin inside, but she couldn't get to it. And that's how it's been ever since...
...finally realized that she "was no more fitted to be a nun than to be an acrobat." After 28 years behind cloister walls, she was almost equally unfitted not to be a nun. Her bestselling first book. I Leap Over the Wall (TIME, Jan. 30, 1950), had a certain Rip van Winkle-ish appeal: it drew the portrait of a woman trained in the leisurely graces of pre-World War I society trying to cope with the rough-and-tumble era of World War II, after nearly three decades of being out of the world. In The Called...
What was immediate and sure was the beeper's psychological impact. In many quarters U.S. discomfiture was greeted with open glee. RUSSIANS RIP AMERICAN FACE, headlined Bangkok's Sathiraphab, and in Beirut a university professor said wryly of his Arab students: "You would have thought they launched it themselves." But nowhere was the beeper's impact so ominous as in the neutral nations of Afro-Asia, where hundreds of millions of uncommitted minds waver between East and West. Its message, said the London Economist last week, was a simple one: "We Russians, a backward people ourselves less...