Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bitterly resent your biased and misleading sketch of Vice President Aaron Burr ... A rehash of old calumnies, invented by his enemies ... It would have been more appropriate for you to have called attention to his many fine personal qualities and to his great services to our country...
...control, and watching 19 different fire-engine companies come roaring to the scene. Then, just as the wind rises, you get a message saying that what the editors really want to know is the amount of property damage and also a complete biography and personality sketch of the arsonist." Actually, says McConaughy, the number of Congressmen a reporter talks to each day is not necessarily significant. "One day you may spend six hours in the House lobby just fishing and shooting the breeze and talk to 30 of them and get nothing. The next day one phone call will result...
...member of McClellan's staff, Prince de Joinville asked for no special privileges and got none. He lived a soldier's life, and his pictures reflect a soldier's-eye view of the war, e.g.. his sketch of General Andrew Porter. De Joinville was chatting with a group of officers one afternoon when he saw the general crossing the parade ground. He whipped out his pencil, captured the pomposity of the potbellied commander astride an equally pompous, arch-necked mount...
Eisenhower's instruments of pressure on the services were Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Arthur Radford. Last week, with Wilson taking part in the discussions. Admiral Radford and the three service chiefs finished sketching out a defense program for 1956-58. Defense Department officials handed the sketch to the President, along with a draft of the 1955 defense budget...
Token from the Master. The star of the show was Rosenberg's old friend and exact contemporary, Picasso (they were both born in 1881). The 43 Picassos on view included such masterpieces as Woman with Mandolin, Harlequin and Open Window, plus nine superb drawings. Among them: a sketch of sharp-eyed, sensitive-faced Paul Rosenberg, done in 1921 as a token of friendship...