Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside London's famed Old Bailey last week, Britons by the hundreds queued up hopefully for gallery seats. Inside the venerable courthouse, facing a jury on terms unprecedented in the long annals of English law, sat a slim, stolid, German-born Canadian immigrant named Gunther Fritz Podola...
...painting cannot be converted into something else. Art "fences'' are nonexistent; art dealers, no matter how covetous they may be, cannot afford to handle such hot merchandise. In the old days, thieves could find ready buyers (if not patrons) among wealthy aristocrats. But today, chances are slim that the thieves were hired by one such determined art lover. "That stuff will be hot for the next 100 years," said Toronto Inspector John Gillespie, as police dispatched photographs of the stolen masterpieces throughout the world. "I don't know how they will get rid of it." Best guess...
When fame strikes a writer late, reprints of his earlier works sometimes become exciting discoveries. This is what Boris Pasternak's publishers hope for with his slim, 1934 story The Last Summer (see below); similarly, Vladimir Nabokov's literary handlers hope that The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941) will acquire Lolita's gilt by association. The first book Nabokov wrote in English (his workshop was the bathroom of his one-room Paris flat), Sebastian Knight has a low sex quotient and no nymphets. Instead, it is devoted to themes that novelists seem to be born with...
When the initial grant was allocated to the GSE last spring, President Pusey appeared before a meeting of the Faculty of the School to explain the University's position on the loyalty oath, and received a reportedly unenthusiastic and slim vote of confidence...
...pinups who have fared better on film than Lola Jean Albright, and the jukeboxes rattle with records made by singers who sell more songs. But when Lola's latest release, Dreamsville, went out to the deejays last week, its fans were readymade. For Lola is Edie Hart, the slim, smoky-voiced saloon singer, the girl wrho keeps the fires warm for TV's Private Eye Peter Gunn, the blue-eyed sentimentalist who can whisper into the mike and convince a million televiewers that she is alone with each one of them. The songs may be old-They Didn...