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American realism reached another early peak in dashing, snuff-snuffling Gilbert Stuart. Once, when a customer complained that Stuart had failed to capture his wife's elusive beauty, the master snapped: "What damned business is this of a portrait painter? You bring him a potato and expect he will paint a peach...
Director Fuller came by his money through his father, a pioneering Manhattan urological surgeon with a canny eye for investments. His taste in art he owes to his mother, who began collecting Chinese antiques and Oriental snuff bottles in 1918, later took the whole Fuller family on a year-long junket through the Far East. Recalls Fuller: "I bought a small white jade in Hong Kong, and from then on nothing has been quite the same." Settling in Seattle, Fuller earned a Ph.D. in geology, a field in which he has won professional recognition, and revitalized Seattle's Northwest...
...rice crackers), the curtain rose on Tokyo's 1956 season with Komaki's production of Swan Lake. The settings were Nordic in an almond-eyed kind of way, with an Oriental fishing junk afloat in a futuristic fjord. But the dancing was more nearly up to Occidental snuff, with 19-year-old Masako Sunaga and 5 ft. 3 in. Naoto Seki prancing and soaring in nearly flawless technique...
...life into Hollywood's sickest studio. ¶Herbert A. Kent, 68, only living American for whom a cigarette is named, was out as board chairman of P. Lorillard Co. (Old Gold, Embassy, Kent). An upstate New Yorker (Auburn), Kent started selling Lorillard's cut plug and snuff in a horse and buggy, moved up Lorillard's ranks from retail salesman to sales manager to advertising head. He became president in 1942, launched such slogans as Old Gold's "For a treat instead of a treatment." After seven years under his hand, Lorillard hired a management consultant...
...aise leader and had holed up for several weeks at the physician's estate in France. The plan was obvious: by provoking violence and silencing conciliators, the French counterterrorists hoped to prove that there was no other course but total repression, no other method but brutal force to snuff out Arab independence...