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...artists. Stuart Davis, for one, soups up the American pavilion with designs as piercing and brassy as a Louis Armstrong high note. Lording it over the British pavilion are Graham Sutherland's pictures of what look like livid innards strung up on brambles. Derived from Picasso's "Tomato Plant Period" of a decade ago, they are equally forceful and unpleasant...
...home palace grounds to save money, the miserly Nizam wore a well-pressed and spotless outfit-yellow turban, tweed coat, loose white trousers and black shoes. He peeled $1,000 off his own bundle (at least $200 million), laid in a supply of tea, cakes, nuts, ice cream, tomato juice and lemon squash, and gave an elegant garden party for New Delhi's 400, among them junketing Eleanor Roosevelt and India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. The Nizam gathered six sons and four daughters around him, but stuck his 15 wives behind a cloth screen on a veranda...
...waiter didn't know it, but he was indulging in an understatement. In her late 40s, Brooklyn-born Tillie Lewis likes to say she is the world's tomato queen and one of the nation's largest independent canners of fruits & vegetables. She began her Manhattan holiday last week as the 1951 packing season ended. At its close, her Flotill Products, Inc. had turned out 150 million cans, including some 75 million cans of tomatoes and tomato products. This year, she estimates she will net some $1,300,000 after taxes, on $20 million in sales...
After her lifelong romance with the tomato, Tillie still becomes lyrical over it. Says she: "To see those rich red tomatoes against the white conveyor belt and the gleaming cans traveling overhead-well, it's really beautiful...
...opposed to some of his earlier roles, Cagney is strong but not silent. His dialogue is strictly the Sam Spade variety--fast, entertaining, and with a stout-hearted quip for every occasion. Cagney's old friend--also a reformed alcoholic--is consistently very funny as he fusses over his tomato juice, attempting to hide its taste...