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...When squat, bald, hook-nosed Henry Justis Allen, onetime barber, was Governor of Kansas, Clyde M. Reed was his secretary. Now Mr. Reed is Governor of Kansas. Last week he announced that he would appoint Mr. Allen to the Kansas seat in the U. S. Senate, vacated by Vice- President Curtis. Once publisher of the Wichita Beacon, Mr. Allen, now 60, directed Hoover campaign publicity...
...thing to insure his immortality. Once, while visiting his brother the Pope, he donned a gold hair net, black biretta, grey-green and furry cloak, scarlet vest. In this attire he climbed to an upper chamber of the Vatican palace (through a window could be seen the squat turret of Castle St. Angelo), and there sat for the popular painter, Raphael Sanzio. Raphael was then in his prime, his original talents reinforced by much critical study of Masaccio, da Vinci, Michelangelo, Bartolommeo. He painted Giuliano with the grace and color befitting even a mediocre Medici...
Ponderous, squat, ungainly were the trunks of the 1890's, trunks that grandfather and grandmother packed, trunks that still repose in many a U. S. attic. Women packed them with patient art, men loaded them with chaotic haste; bent backs and weary arms accompanied their movement. Travelers, arriving at destinations, had first to unpack trunks, lest folded garments acquire permanent wrinkles...
...fuselage is distinctive. It is 12 ft. wide, 6 ft. high. 47 ft. long over all; very squat. The squatness makes the fuselage virtually part of the wings. In their 90 ft. span the wings proper have a lifting power of 142-Ibs. per sq. ft.; the fuselage 4^ Ibs. per sq. ft. The squatness also creates an air cushion under the plane when she lands, a benefit. To get figures on cost of operation, Mr. Chapman sent his airliner to Philadelphia last week, will send it shortly to Chicago, then to San Francisco. Then he expects to build...
...Squat and monstrous, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum lies grimly along Fifth Avenue like the palace of some dour despot. But the men who choose its collections are not stonily infallible. Recently one blunder was exposed, many blunders alleged...