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...result, however fetching, would probably have turned Mondrian an unprimary shade of purple. Few artists enjoy seeing their paintings turned directly into dresses, let alone Mondrian. A sturdy Dutchman of strict Calvinist origins, he lived like a loner...
...name for it has yet been picked-would link 20 states and two Canadian provinces from Portland, Me., to Omaha, from Montreal to Winston-Salem, N.C., over 26,460 miles of track; it would boast annual revenues of $1.822 billion a year. The new road would be a shade larger than the pending New York Central-Pennsylvania combine (23,271 track miles, $1.806 billion-a-year revenues) but would have slightly less in total assets ($5.9 billion v. the Pennsy Central's $6 billion...
...shown white-and Negro-appearing dolls or asked to color pictures of children to look like themselves, many of them tend to reject the dark-skinned dolls as 'dirty' and 'bad' or to color the picture of themselves a light color or a bizarre shade like purple. But the fantasy is not complete, for when asked to identify which doll is like themselves, some Negro children, particularly in the North, will refuse, burst into tears and run away...
BRUNSWICK, ME., Summer Playhouse: 110 in the Shade's non-rainmaking rainmaker fits right in with the Northeast's drought...
...recent months Stevenson some times spoke of retiring. CBS-TV's Eric Sevareid quoted Stevenson as having said only two days before his death that he wanted to quit: "For a while, I would just like to sit in the shade with a glass of wine in my hand and watch people dance." But before he accepted President Kennedy's offer to be Ambassador to the United Nations, Stevenson had indicated that he intended to stay with the job as long as he was wanted. "If I accept this appointment," he told a friend, "I am committed...