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...Reader Gettler gave up too soon. Here is the list: 1) Falstaff; 2) Richard III; 3) the Shakespearean jester, e.g., Touchstone; 4) Ariel (whose hand, trumpet and feet stuck out behind the cover slash); 5) Caliban; 6) Hamlet (with Yorick); 7) King Lear; 8) & 9) Antony and Cleopatra; 10) & 11) Petruchio and the shrew he tamed, Katharina; 12) Ophelia; 13) & 14) Othello and his ill-fated wife, Desdemona; 15) & 16) Juliet and Romeo; 17) a gravedigger from Hamlet; 18) & 19) Macbeth and Lady Macbeth; 20), 21) & 22) the three witches from Macbeth, stirring their boiling cauldron; 23) & 24) Bottom...
...angry young artists who came to maturity in the 1930s, few seemed angrier than Philip Evergood, his voice still booms, his eyes go wide, his his hands and arms slash the air. And some of his paintings still roar with indignation. But by last week when when Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art opened its first Evergood retrospective show, the famed anger had mellowed into something hauntingly gentle...
...major weapons program-especially after billions have been invested, service prestige put on the line, business and political support generated all along the production line. But last week Air Force Chief of Staff Thomas D. White spelled out for the House Appropriations Committee an Air Force proposal to slash $500 million out of the 1961 budget for air defenses against enemy bombers, apply the money to stepped-up construction of the Atlas and Minuteman ICBMs and the Midas "spy in the sky" satellite missile warning system...
...tossed around vague charges that Skousen had been "insubordinate," but Skousen's real offense seemed to be that he had failed to show enough enthusiasm for Lee's determination to slash the police-department budget. Any interference with his nickel-nipping crusades stirs J. Bracken Lee, 61, to fuming anger. Sometime Republican Governor of Utah (1949-57), Lee ranks high among the obsessive budget-cutters of U.S. politics, keeps on his desk a paperweight inscribed G-D-TAXES. Since taking over as mayor last January, Lee has, among other things: ¶ Refused to pay a $29,000 bill...
...check signers, among the most expensive (consommé: $2). In a fit of pique, Pierre Franey quit as Le Pavilion's head chef after Owner Henri Soulé demanded that he cut five hours of overtime off the work week of the kitchen staff in order to slash the operating expenses of the restaurant. An artist of the kitchen, Franey refused, said: "If I do it, my men quit on me. They are underpaid, getting the minimum. You cannot shave eggs. It's got no hair...