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...spending management, the ranch (it has never made a red cent) has become one of the show places of the region. But he is shyly conscious of being a little more prosperous than his neighbors, is afraid of being thought a showoff. Talkative and genial, he walks with the swivel-hipped, bowlegged, rolling gait of a cowboy, wears his heart on his sleeve, tells his most intimate business to anybody who happens to be around. A sure sucker for any kind of financial venture, he has lost enough money on bogus oil stock to keep many of his neighbors...
...believer in repetition, Sculptor Wheelock keeps on experimenting. His lively, engaging pieces range from a plump, belligerent figure of Fiorello LaGuardia to an abstract, pinafored Little Girl, from a bat-swinging Babe Ruth (Sultan of Swat), all curves and planes, to a shiny, swivel-hipped Black Dancer. "When a man stops adventuring," says practical Warren Wheelock, "he stops being an artist...
Victor Emanuel met Loewenstein in England, where he has spent many a season steeplechasing and riding to hounds. (He was once Master of the Woodland Pytchley hounds.) Between times he has thinned his hair, widened his girth by syndicate operations in a swivel chair. Still president of Standard Power & Light, he entered what he calls "the Aviation Corp. situation" in 1937. Last fall he strengthened his hold by a typical maneuver...
...swankest of the arts in 18th-Century London was Italian opera. Periwigged courtiers, who could not understand a word of it, raised their lace cuffs to applaud the ornate trilling of swivel-voiced prima donnas. Fashionable composers like Handel had to write their librettos in Italian. The Caruso of the period was the Italian eunuch-Francesco Bernardi Senesino, whose misfortunate voice earned fabulous sums at London's Royal Academy of Music. Lustier London wits like Henry Fielding began poking fun at this artificial art, inveighed against London's "wanton, affected fondness for foreign musick," with its "squeaking recitatives...
...Evanston, Ill., Northwestern-exhibiting their precious new Wildcat, highly touted Bill de Correvont, who scored 211 points for Chicago's Austin High two years ago-discovered that they needed more than de Correvont's swivel hips to make a bid for the Big Ten title. Against Oklahoma, Big Six champions last year, the Wildcats were stampeded...