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...proclaim its charter, the Gallery last week put on exhibition 50 newly acquired portraits. One was a sketch by John Keats (see cut) of Painter Benjamin Haydon, which Keats himself described as "a vile caricature." Beside it hung Haydon's profile of Keats, which was not much better...
...year later, now healthy but a mild hypochondriac, he came back to the air, began his present half-hour show. Its main attractions: a ten-minute sketch involving a guest star and a short stroll down the most famed of all airlanes: Allen's Alley...
...from its present confusion. It is the longest work in "Radditudes," and most ambitious; its study of a student suffering from some sort of war neurosis leaves the reader impressed and bewildered. If there had been no attempt at symbolism, if Wainhouse had limited himself to a simple character sketch, the story would have been clear and good. Once he decided to have the cigarette lighter mean something, he should have made its meaning more apparent...
...night, alone in his studio or his bedroom, he wrestles with dialogue, penciling it into the blank strips he will sketch next day, and erasing it over & over until it rings true. Somehow he finds time to contrive bright new baubles of incident to hang on his thin thread of plot...
...publisher of a little, twelve-year-old Illinois newspaper asked his friend Abe Lincoln for an autobiographical sketch.* Publisher Jesse Fell didn't intend to use it in his own Bloomington Pantograph, because everyone in those parts knew all about Abe. He wanted to forward copies of it to eastern papers, to get them interested in Lincoln for President. The Lincoln manuscript has never left the family's possession; neither has the newspaper. Last week the Pantagraph celebrated its 100th anniversary with an ad-fat, 156-page issue...