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...respect bur one, this film is drab and pale. The exception is James Cagney's portrayal of Hank Martin, the ambitious backwoods peddler who almost "lynched a whole state." Against the rest of the film, Martin stands out like a Lutree potrait superimposed on a black-and-white pencil sketch...
Searching through the archives for interesting his torical data before the bicentennial of 1836, President Josiah Quincy came upon a rough sketch of college arms: Veritas and the three volumes. The last of the volumes in the original drawing was not opened like the first two, but was half-closed with the inscription on its back binding. Apprehensive lest such a placement be interpreted as a critique of education, Quincy revised the scal so that each book was spread open...
Nagged by the thought that he might become typed as a ventriloquist and some day go stale, Winchell began taking on straight acting roles ("I want to become so flexible that I just can't get into a rut"), today does a weekly seven-minute dramatic sketch midway in his comedy show. He turns down most offers to guest-star his ventriloquist act on other television programs, but he keeps an ear cocked for calls for Paul Winchell, actor. It's not that he doesn't have enormous affection for his wooden pal Jerry, but he asks...
Visitors from 90 foreign countries seemed to agree. So many sharp-eyed Japanese and Germans armed with sketch pads and cameras crowded around that some of the exhibits were hastily snatched back into shelter...
...sharpness, but with none of the Martini's soothing effects. His subjects are full of ferocity and strain. He likes best painting roots, insects, husks, stumps, and most of all, thorns, isolating and enlarging them in his canvases as if he were painting monumental portraits. Beginning with a sketch from nature, Sutherland transforms it into a half-abstract reconstruction of a half-recognizable object...