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...crutch like a pinwheel. These pieces testify to his roving eye, roguish humor and beery vision of the human condition. He can draw a third-person self-portrait as accurately as a brilliant cartoonist or observant cop: "He's five foot six and a half. Thick blubber lips; snub nose; curly mouse-brown hair; one front tooth broken . . . speaks rather fancy; truculent; plausible ; a bit of a shower-off; plus fours and no breakfast, you know ... a bombastic adolescent provincial bohemian with a thick-knotted artist's tie made out of his sister's scarf-she never...
...Vaughan earlier had made another denial. He said that Truman had not delivered his famed snub to Thurmond during the 1949 inaugural parade. According to Vaughan, just as Thurmond's car approached the presidential reviewing stand, "Tallulah Bankhead came out with a terrific 'Boo!'" Said Vaughan: "She was behind the dignified Supreme Court with their silk hats, and she just about blew their hats off ... That was why [Truman] turned his head when Strom was coming past." Asked for comment last week, Miss Bankhead drawled: "Who's Harry Vaughan...
...oratorical: the U.S.'s Dulles promised continued efforts to bring to life President Eisenhower's plan for a pooling of atomic energy for peaceful purposes, even though the Russians snub it (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Russia's Vishinsky agreed with surprising alacrity to discuss the proposal, but this means nothing so long as Moscow sticks to its agreement-blocking preconditions for joining in such a pool...
Beneath this artistic upper crust, there is a varied commercial stew. Among the most popular types: 1) The Parisienne, a snub-nosed, black-eyed girl in a flowery hat. derived from Renoir, but produced with the most success by a commercial artist named Huldah; 2) The Dancer, in a ballet skirt and a misty setting, inspired by Degas and churned out commercially by one Fried Pal, among others; 3) The Paris Street, in cool colors with sharp edges, originated by Utrillo, but perpetuated by a more sober and less talented host of hacks; 4) the dashing watercolor of a horse...
...Western newspapermen round to tea; but they would have no truck whatsoever with the Vietnamese. The Red MPs crisply presented their U.S.-made carbines whenever French officers passed by, but they would not salute the Vietnamese. And the French, bent on a settlement in Indo-China, were quick to snub the Vietnamese delegates in conference; they unquestioningly accepted such Communist terms as "People's Democratic Republic of Viet Nam" instead of the customary "Viet Minh"; they did not protest when the Communists spoke only of the "French Union command" instead of the "Franco-Vietnamese command." The French...