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Anthony Grzebyk is the biggest man in the Plymouth automobile plant in Detroit. He stands 6 ft. 4½in., weighs 300 lb., measures 48 in. around the waist. His towering bulk, his stolid face are familiar to nearly every worker under the 22 acres of Plymouth roof. He works on the assembly line in the evening shift, arriving a half-hour early just as the day shift is quitting at 3:30 p. m. To day shift and to evening shift he is known simply as "Big Tony...
...jury last week decided that Artist Kroll's picture outranked all of these, it also awarded the second prize of $600 to spectacled French Post-Impressionist Pierre Bonnard for a gaily colored still life of a breakfast table, the $500 third prize to a study of two stolid peasant women leaning over a table, the work of Spain's Pedro de Valencia...
...donkey's ears stick out! His Nazi doctrine is utter humbug. Non sensical!" Last week Communists were saying that should brilliant Karl Radek, the Walter Lippmann of the Kremlin, be shot there is no Red able to succeed him in giving wit and penetration to Stalin's stolid, blunt ideas...
...Because of the retreat of many of the best early paintings, the show leans heavily on the mystical 19th Century Romantics that for a brief while made Munich an art centre almost equal to Paris and Rome, profoundly influenced U. S. painters of the "Hudson River School" and the stolid portraitists that followed them. Other noteworthy pictures included...
Just after noon came the blare of band music and the clatter of hoofs. Down the street rode King Edward, his head almost extinguished under the enormous bearskin of the Grenadier Guards. Behind him clattered his equerry. Major Sir John ("Jackie") Renton Aird, and behind him the stolid heir to the throne, the Duke of York...