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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Twain, who nevertheless was fascinated by the native method of eating it: "The forefinger is thrust into the mess and stirred quickly around ... the head is thrown back, the finger inserted in the mouth and the delicacy stripped off and swallowed-the eye closing gently, meanwhile, in a languid sort of ecstasy...
Blast it, Vag groaned. He swung an invisible ski pole at holidays in general. Vacation was swell, but Christmas cramped your style. Sort of chopped up the first week. And places were always so crowded-why not just leave and head for the mountains...
...Organization, two of the severest critics of his private life. Last week, Durocher got back his old job as manager of the Dodgers. There was also something in it for well-liked Burt Shotton, who had subbed for Durocher and won Brooklyn the 1947 pennant. He will become a sort of super-manager over the Dodgers' 26 farm clubs...
...sort of phame that Edward Lear was after. A shy, pear-shaped six-footer with a bulging nose and "a beard that resembles a wig," he was a melancholy bachelor who could "blubber bottlesful" over Tennyson's poems. The son of a bankrupt, he began painting for his living at 15. It was as a painter, and not as a writer of "bosh," that he wished to be known...
...same puritanical detachment. His pictures have no tricks in them, only an intensity of understatement which makes him one of the top half-dozen photographers alive. Says he: "After 20-odd years of work I still have great difficulty maintaining enough calm to operate well, at moments when some sort of perfection is in sight...