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Tobey's paintings appeal primarily to a tight circle of cognoscenti, but the man himself perfectly fills the popular picture of an artist. His leonine head is half snowed under by his untidy white hair; he drapes his bulky frame in handsome Harris tweeds, wears a carelessly slung scarf and paint-splashed shoes. Sympathetic or not, questions about his art generally draw an amiable response. "I can't understand doctors or lawyers," he says. "Why the hell should anyone understand...
...Scarf (Joseph Justman; United Artists) tackles another pressing problem: the plight of a multimillionaire's foster son (John Ireland) who escapes from a desert asylum for the criminal insane to find out whether he really committed the murder that put him there five years before. Mercedes McCambridge gamely turns up again, this time as a singing waitress who helps Ireland recover his lost memory and uncover the true culprit: a madman with a thriving business as a psychologist...
...invited the Press Board to her office for its monthly social hour. Every girl brought a sandwich, and Miss Projansky served some cookies that she had baked herself. She also bubbled coffee in an adjoining room while the Press Board gossiped about the quality of the food and the scarf of one of their members. Five minutes before the chit-chat was scheduled to end, Miss Projansky got down to business...
...pilfering team, Radcliffe students and housemothers said, works through an elderly woman who generally wears a dark coat and a yellow scarf, and carries a shopping bag. Her routine has not changed since her activity began. She comes to a dorm and asks to go upstairs to see Anna Kris '53 on the pretext that she works for Miss Kris' doctor. Miss Kris, a resident of Briggs Hall, said last night she had never met the intruder...
They didn't seem to be ashamed at being caught out like this. One of them approached; he was wearing a black blazer and an appalling orange scarf. Good Heavens, thought Vag, even wearing the uniform of the enemy...