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Tobey's paintings appeal primarily to a tight circle of cognoscenti, but the man himself perfectly fills the popular picture of an artist. His leonine head is half snowed under by his untidy white hair; he drapes his bulky frame in handsome Harris tweeds, wears a carelessly slung scarf and paint-splashed shoes. Sympathetic or not, questions about his art generally draw an amiable response. "I can't understand doctors or lawyers," he says. "Why the hell should anyone understand...
...have exceeded a few hundred yards an hour. Some of them wept with pain as they walked, others lay sprawled grotesquely on the frozen stubble by the roadside, in the deathlike sleep of utter exhaustion. One R.O.K. rifleman was crawling on his hands and knees, his Garand still slung across his back, when some G.I.s with an I. and R. (Intelligence and Reconnaissance) platoon found him and packed him off in a jeep...
...dawn the searchers gathered up the broken bodies. Padre Vélaz could not identify most of them, but carefully copied the laundry marks in their clothing. Then he helped enshroud his students in sheets. At 9, the party, carrying the shrouded bodies slung between poles, began its downhill procession. At the foot of the mountain, footsore and unshaven, Padre Vélaz met and talked with some of the boys' fathers, completed the work of identification by telegraphing for a list of school laundry numbers. Then he took charge and directed the task of soldering the zinc coffins...
...chair heretofore reserved for eminent public figures. Last week, just before the retreat in Korea, Lord Hives was paid the kind of compliment he likes even better. The British Commonwealth 29th Brigade went into action with what some experts call the West's best heavy tank, the low-slung, 52-ton Centurion. It is powered by a 635-h.p. Rolls-Royce Meteor engine that Hives helped develop...
Commuting Comfort. Across the bridge barefoot people in tall conical hats come pat-patting with heavy bundles and baskets slung from bamboo poles. They are on their way to work. Each Chinese commuter carries a special pass issued by the French Súreté. One side is printed in French, signed by a French official; the other side is printed in Chinese for the convenience of Tonghing's Communist police...