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Like Sutherland's landscapes, the portrait had the hot, bright colors of the Riviera, where he lives much of the year. His landscapes, more than halfway abstract, showed things like grasshoppers hopping into scarlet immensities and bushes brandishing their thorns at green skies. The portrait was equally harsh. Posed against a livid yellow background, Maugham sat with folded arms beneath a fringe of tropical palms. His jut-jawed old face seemed to betray a struggle between pain and hauteur...
...mean something--but in the middle of April this doesn't help much, since only one of the contending boats has raced. Rutgers has already absorbed defeats from Columbia and Penn, the former winning by one length, and the latter by the healthy margin of six lengths. The Scarlet is never highly regarded among Eastern rowing circles, and these defeats have not helped its reputation...
...Salvaged from a frigate which sank off the Dutch coast in 1799 with ?1,000,000 in gold aboard, ruining many underwriters. The bell hangs over Lloyd's center rostrum, is rung by a "waiter" in scarlet and gold. One stroke means disaster at sea; two mean good news...
...Gulzar Mahal Palace, the Amir sat on a silver throne, fanned by two garishly uniformed attendants; a Negro jester clad in scarlet tunic stood at his elbow. The Amir was a mass of glittering green. His head was ringed by a gold and platinum crown studded with $3,000,000 worth of emeralds. More emeralds flashed from his silver-braided Moslem long coat and sword belt. Only his shoes, British-made black oxfords, were plain. While Arab minstrels wailed in the background, 500 red-fezzed subjects came up one by one, bowed, and dropped gold pieces (worth $7 each...
...aureomycin's success have come in. Last month, in Washington, a research group headed by Dr. Harry F. Dowling of George Washington University reported that aureomycin was better than any other antibiotic for treating undulant fever (brucellosis), and that it produced good results against streptococcic and staphylococcic infections, scarlet fever, and a type of pneumonia that doctors sometimes call "primary atypical," sometimes "virus." The British medical journal Lancet has reported that aureomycin "has the widest range of activity of any known antibacterial substance...