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Five months later, when Dentist Garvin's home-town Cincinnati Times-Star (157,409) started running his bylined weekly column and published a picture and thumbnail sketch of its author, the Cincinnati Dental Society objected that "Your Teeth" was a "weekly advertisement" and thus violated its code of ethics. Last August the dental society's twelve-man council voted to extract his membership card...
Seurat went about his mission with a thoroughness that Louvre Curator Germain Bazin compares only to Leonardo da Vinci's own scientific preparations. To ready his first painted manifesto, La Grande Jatte, Seurat went daily for six months to the island to sketch and make quick color studies, worked for months in his studio making life studies of the 40 figures he intended to place in his finished canvas. Only after two arduous years did Seurat, then 26, finish the work-thousands of minute dots of paint, some three layers in depth, on a canvas measuring nearly...
...crisis-while attempting to point up the Middle East's low esteem for Britain and France-that if he were an American soldier he would not like to fight beside British and French troops in the Middle East. (DULLES INSULTS OUR FORCES, shrieked London's tabloid Daily Sketch.) France will not forgive Dulles for his support of local movements against French colonial rule in Indo-China, Tunisia and Morocco. Nor will India forgive him for calling Goa, an Indian-claimed Portuguese colony on the India mainland, "a Portuguese province." Israel remembers that U.S. policy was much more...
...Mail did not stoop to reply, but its sister Rothermere paper, the Daily Sketch (circ. 1,304,892), cried in protest: "Utter rubbish." Added the Sketch: "If the Daily Express manages to get one reader to the South Pole by the end of January, we will pay ?500 to any charity the Daily Express chooses." In the midst of the English winter, hundreds of Express readers entered the contest to get to the Pole. But at week's end, while Fleet Street bet privately that the Sketch's money was safe, the Mail's Barber...
Next day most of the papers were in full, ecstatic cry. Headlined the News Chronicle: THE QUEEN'S TV TRIUMPH! Cheered the Daily Sketch: "The Queen knocks those critics cold!" The only faultfinder was Donald Edgar of the Daily Express. Why, asked Edgar, had not someone the sense to tell the Queen that her dress ("It was fussy with that great big bow") was wrong for TV? Why was her makeup...