Word: thinly
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Whitney Darrow Jr., a thin, neat, nervous young man of 34, is the son of a vice president of Charles Scribner's Sons. The cartoonist went to Princeton ('31), there art-edited the Princeton Tiger. He sold his first drawings to Judge, College Humor and the old Life. After college he studied at Manhattan's famed Art Students League under Thomas Hart Benton. Says Darrow of this training: "He taught me how to roll Bull Durham cigarets." Darrow's first New Yorker appearance was a study of two girl nudists admiring a male fellow nudist: "Last...
...recent faddism over self-taught (modern "primitive") painters has not spoiled thin, bespectacled Fred Papsdorf.He has had modest success and has gotten museum ranking after only six years of serious oil painting. But he still reminds art circles of the late, great, triumphantly simple Pittsburgh "primitive," John Kane...
Manpower shortages caught up with the Harvard soccer squad last Saturday as the MacDonaldmen spread themselves thin over three games. The A and B teams lost at Worcester Poly and Andover 7 to 2 and 2 to 0 respectively, while a more or less pick-up C team beat Governor Dummer...
When Mexico's thin, redheaded El Fakir was unnailed from the simulated cross on which he had spent 488 hours, 45 minutes (TIME, Sept. 27) and taken to the Sanatorio Mexicano, Catholic nuns refused to minister to him. He rested four days; then, against doctor's orders, rose and walked to his hotel. That evening he strolled abroad with his three dogs. Half an hour later he was dead...
Brown had resigned his CBS job three weeks ago when News Chief Paul White objected to his broadcast statement that "a good deal of the [U.S.] enthusiasm for this war is evaporating into thin air." White said that was just Brown's opinion, told him to label it as such. Brown said he had developed the opinion on a recent countrywide tour, felt no embarrassment at uttering it without qualification. The announcement of Brown's resignation had not been publicized because his $1,000-a-week contract with his sponsor (Johns-Manville) did not expire until last week...