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...rescue squad sank a shaft into the mound to look for bodies. While they were working, "a smallish, quick-moving man came up and asked: 'Where's my rabbits?' He received no answer. 'Four I 'ad,' he said, 'kept 'em in the-Anderson [shelter], and this morning I saw two of 'em up the top of Beaton Street.' Ford wondered if his warden's training should have included elementary rabbit catching...
...DESCRIBING MY PERSON. ALTHOUGH I ACTUALLY STAND FIVE FEET FOUR INCHES IN SOCKS, I HAVE NEVER OBJECTED TO BEING RIBBED ABOUT MY SIZE. YOUR PET WORD, HOWEVER, STRIKES ME AS INAPPROPRIATE AS IT CARRIES A CONNOTATION OF THE MONSTROUS AND STUNTED. LET ME SUGGEST THAT SUCH PHRASES AS "SMALLISH," "MINUTE," "MINIATURE" AND EVEN "POCKET-SIZE" BILLY ROSE WOULD BE CONSIDERABLY MORE APPETIZING. OF COURSE, IF YOUR MIND IS MADE UP, I ASSURE YOU THAT I WOULD RATHER BE LABELED "DWARFISH" THAN NOT BE MENTIONED IN YOUR SPLENDID MAGAZINE AT ALL. KINDEST REGARDS...
This season Manhattan has seen more spins, leaps, foot-twiddles than it ever had before: 14 weeks of Russian ballet. Last week the Russians (two troupes managed by Impresario Sol Hurok) were on tour. In a smallish theatre a plushy audience (which included Mr. Hurok) beheld a ballet company which seemed as corny as they come. The coryphees were wildly out of step with one another and with the music. The men wore tights, jackets and bow ties which looked like three-a-day vaudeville. The prima ballerinas, apparently a haughty Italian, a frizzy-headed Frenchwoman, an intense Russian, wobbled...
...their painters on the payroll. Others beg for them, as they might beg for cinema projectors or laboratory equipment, from Carnegie Foundation. Since 1938 this organization has supplied a dozen artists in residence, with an average $1,500 for their keep, to colleges which it prefers to be smallish, inland. The lot which Carnegie doled out this year includes: one slightly shopworn illustrator, John Held Jr., to the University of Georgia; one up-&-coming muralist, Philip Evergood, to Kalamazoo College. A crack portraitist, Robert Philipp, goes to the University of Illinois on a $4,000 Rotating Professorship succeeding Dale Nichols...
Falkenhorst means "falcon's eyrie," and it was his use of winged killers that swept Germany's new hero to his fame. Blond, blue-eyed, smallish Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, 55, had proved himself a pitiless war lord. His soldierly qualities came to him from a line of professional fighters and from the same military academies-at Wahlstatt and Lichterfelde (oldtime Prussian West Point)-that turned out Germany's Hindenburg and Ludendorff. From the age of twelve, in school and at home in Breslau, he was shaped strictly for membership in his father's regiment, the crack...