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Penguin Puns. A self-taught, left-handed cartoonist, Pat Oliphant since 1955 had amused the 200,000 subscribers of the Advertiser, where he had moved up from copy boy. But he had long pined to pack up his pen and take it to the U.S. Both he and his trim, Dutch-born wife Hendrika (winner of the South Australian breaststroke championship in 1955) have boned up on American mores and politics against the day that one of Oliphant's endless job applications to U.S. papers paid...
Diana Menuhin was not exaggerating. More like an Olympic sprinter in training than a 48-year-old violin virtuoso on tour, Yehudi Menuhin stays religiously in trim with yoga and health foods. Not that he is in any danger of getting fat. The busiest, fastest-moving musician on the international festival circuit, Menuhin has performed in some 50 concerts from Tel Aviv to Glasgow this summer, has also fulfilled a dizzying round of recording, teaching and conducting engagements. The crescendo comes each year in June and August, when Menuhin presides over two top-notch festivals, at Gstaad in Switzerland, which...
Often, esthetics enters usefulness by the back door. The late Dr. Peter Schlumbohm used the chemical principle of filtration to make the trim Chemex coffeemaker, then simply placed a disk of filter paper inside a circular housing to make a new kind of fan. Spun by a motor, the rippling paper edges cast air through the rim by centrifugal force. A ban vivant of the first order, Schlumbohm made a rapid, but esthetic, champagne cooler just because he felt bachelors should not be caught short when unexpectedly entertaining women...
...Triennale, whose theme is leisure, the emphasis is on the lighthearted Yet the stocky curves of Finnish target rifles or rowboats, the unbulky, trim-below-the-hips power of an Italian Gilera 250-cc. motorcycle, or the sweep of Italian wicker rocking chairs show amply that much art is not made to hang on walls...
...incredibly self-disciplined. Her skin is clear and abloom, and she has the figure of a teen-ager (5 ft. 4 in., 114 lbs.), but she is no glamor girl. Her nose is a bit too long,.her mouth a bit too wide, her ankles a bit less than trim, and she is not outstanding at clotheshorseman-ship. She has a voice something like a brassy low note on a trumpet, and she speaks in a twanging drawl; friends comes out "frayans," affairs are "affa-yahs," hogs "hoags...