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...dressed in a neat double-breasted suit of a soft blue and as always gave the impression of having been very carefully barbered about fifteen minutes before. Where his hair near the part at the front is this, each strand was carefully combed and plastered down, making him look curiously as if he'd been cast for a part in "Up in Central Park...
...houses being built beside the strand...
...nervous before a race that he was afraid to walk down steps and had to be carried by teammates. At those times, Herb McKenley, the great Jamaican quarter-miler, walks around in a stupor, unable to speak when spoken to. Sweden's famed miler, Lennart Strand, gets absentminded; he recently went out for a race without his running shirt...
...owns, operates and provides much of the food for 250 teashops in England, four huge restaurants (Corner Houses), London's famed Trocadero Restaurant and three of London's largest hotels (the 1,000-room Cumberland, the goo-room Regent Palace, the goo-room Strand Palace...
Almost nothing is known of Luini beyond the fact that he painted a great deal, and died in 1532. He may once have studied with Leonardo da Vinci, for though his drawing is less acute than Leonardo's, it has the same sinuous elegance-like a strand of hair afloat on the wind. But unlike Leonardo, he never painted a monster or a mask of rage or caught a tempest in his brush. Luini was limited and narrow, but like a narrow window standing open...