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...match and more when septuagenarian Poet-Biographer Carl Sandburg dropped in for a scheduled 15-minute interview on Allen's midnight show. Looking as mild and mischievous as Grandma Moses in a barroom, the weathered old buckeye bard casually ignored the time limit on his stint, brushed aside his M.C.'s good-nights and thank-yous, stayed on happily ad-libbing, reading, reciting and singing for the full hour that remained of the show. Asked by the harassed Allen if he would mind the interruption of a popular tune by Pianist Marian McPartland, the old man conceded gracefully...
...Thon was born 48 years ago in Manhattan. He left school at the end of the eighth grade, lived by a variety of odd jobs while teaching himself to paint. Success came very slowly, and Thon's star did not really rise until after his World War II stint on a subchaser and his sojourn in Italy...
Realist Bohrod started out painting brick-by-brick cityscapes of his native Chicago and did a stint for the WPA before he covered the war in the Pacific and the Normandy invasion as a LIFE artist-correspondent. Focusing now on Trompe-l'Oeil, Bohrod explains: "If explanation of these works is needed at all, I might say that they come about particularly because of my impatience with and my reaction against the scattershot, nonobjective and surface-decoration schools of painting which seem to constitute the bulk of current recognized endeavor." Trompe-l'Oeil work, he knows...
...bread and buttermilk. A thin man of 49, with a small mustache and glinting spectacles, he is chief minister of Saurashtra state (21,000 square miles, 4,000,000 population), which was put together in 1948 from lands formerly ruled by princes and maharajas. After a day's stint in his bare lawyer's office, Dhebar goes home to his bare, two-room dwelling, only one room of which has a carpet. Dhebar squats on the carpet and listens to the peasants, also squatting there, who have come to tell him their troubles. In this...
Middle-Age Spread. With time out for a World War I stint overseas in the field artillery (he came out a private first class), Curtice rapidly rose to AC assistant general manager, vice president, and, at 36, president. Then, in 1933, came an opportunity born of disaster. General Motors' Buick, for years a notable success as the safe, sound and respectable "doctor's car," was in dire trouble. It had gone up in price, fallen behind in styling, grown fat and heavy (one model was inelegantly nicknamed the "pregnant Buick," the "bedpan Buick" and the "bathtub Buick"). When...