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...collectors, she is also the most reticent, and springs from rather than to the defense of her choices. Along with distinguished sculptures by such European moderns as Brancusi, Giacometti, Lipschitz and Marini, she buys the smear-technique abstractions of such avant-garde Manhattanites as Baziotes, Motherwell, Rothko and Tomlin. Her hand-dribbled Jackson Pollock (see cut) is appropriately small...
...performed the miracle of being highly popular while remaining an individual. His Headmaster, the late J. E. C. Welldon, who became Bishop of Calcutta, noted the 14-year-old boy's "love and veneration" for the English language. He quoted Shakespeare by the scene. Canon James William Sackett Tomlin of Canterbury writes: "The one vivid memory that I have of him is [his] darting up during a house debate, against all the rules, before he had been a year in the house, to refute one of his seniors and carry all before him with a magnificent speech...
Last week American Records celebrated the opening of Master Records with a party at which Bandleaders Hal Kemp and Paul Ash, Vocalists Baby Rose Marie, Dolly Dawn and Pinky Tomlin were due to appear. Mr. Mills does not permit such relaxations, nor the luxuries of his fantastic suites of offices, to divert his eye from the verities of Broadway. When his son Sidney, breaking in with Mills Music, called up to get Calloway to play a tune he was promoting, Mr. Mills had him turned down cold "to convince him that song-plugging is a tough racket...
King Solomon of Broadway, however, manages to be ingratiating when Band Leader Pinky Tomlin is blinking with fright or playing his guitar, when Miss Page is singing and strutting...
...Oklahoma farmband, Pinky Tomlin can look either forty or his actual twenties, depending on the camera used and the amount of re-touching. He was a professed hick and already losing his tin, flame-colored hair rapidly when Delta Tau Delta at the University of Oklahoma pledged him. That made no difference; the brothers hoped to tame their alfalfa cowboy. In the meantime, he went to work leading a college orchestra. That got him three meals day low grades, and a reputation for having a singing voice with a twang to it. In spite of the Delta, he remained...