Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heroes and villains as Billy the Kid, Geronimo and Archbishop John (Death Comes for the Archbishop) Lamy made posthumous headlines. The New Mexican's tough, fighting Editor Will Harrison suspended his running feud with New Mexico's Governor' Thomas Mabry long enough to print a historical sketch under Mabry's byline...
...fascinated by the legend of the winged horse and heroic rider who angered Zeus by their presumption at trying to mount the heavens. The infuriated god sent a hornet to sting Pegasus' flank, and Bellerophon, thrown from the horse's back, plummeted to earth. Milles made a sketch model that stood in his Cranbrook, Mich. studio "for years," until Des Moines Publisher Gardner Cowles came along and commissioned him to complete it for the Art Center...
...psychogenic rheumatic who has no visible changes in his joints is likely to be a psychologically distinct type of person. Psychiatrist Alfred O. Ludwig of Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital gave the rheumatologists a composite character sketch: the psychogenic rheumatic is insecure, dependent on others but denies his dependence, has trouble adjusting to changes. He finds the world a hostile, dog-eat-dog place, reacts to it violently, but suppresses his emotions; he is sensitive, resents control, drives himself too hard. Said Dr. Ludwig: such patients "do not think in terms of live & let live, but rather of devour...
...that magazine's prose. There is a tremendous difference between the apparently effortless writing of a real stylist and the glibness that characterizes this book. And Busch's thinking is as glib as are his sentences. He deals more in notions than in ideas; and his book is a sketch, not a biography...
...robbed. Says Bob Hope: "When you see Berle, you're seeing the best things of anybody who has ever been on Broadway ... I want to get into television before he uses up all my material." Jack Benny is smarting over what he considers the theft of a hillbilly sketch, which Milton claims to have used first. Says Fred Allen: "He's done everybody's act. He's a parrot with skin on." Eddie Cantor is rankled because, he says, Milton recently used a sketch written for Cantor...