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...ticket, three shirts and a pair of pants, he set out for Rio to study art. Kindly professors at Rio's School of Fine Arts offered to give him free lessons. At 15 milreis ($3.75) a month Candido Portinari took up lodgings in a bathroom, slept in the tub, had to get up at 5 a.m. so that other boarders could take their showers...
Jesse Newlon, 58, is a great, rumbling tub of a man, a longtime spokesman for the left wing of U. S. teachers. Onetime president of the National Education Association, he helped found the now extinct leftish magazine Social Frontier, was a crony of famed Leftist Professor George Sylvester Counts. An inveterate signer of manifestoes for a new social order, Dr. Newlon has always called himself a liberal, still does. Last week he presented his colleagues with a large dish of crow...
...Dewey added Maryland's 16, Idaho's eight votes to his bag last week. But in California Herbert Hoover's agents quietly picked up 44 "uninstructed" delegates for their old boss. Ohio's Candidate Robert Alphonso Taft discovered last week that viewing-with-alarm, tub-thumping and Pullman undressing had shortened the life of his four all-purpose suits (funerals, weddings, Senate). He acted promptly: in 25 minutes he had enough clothes to carry him through the G. O. P. convention-one pair Regal shoes, black, $5.80; one dark grey, lightweight spring suit...
Undergraduate Vassar, reported Mrs. Allen, has changed greatly in the last 50 years. Girls no longer have to report to their teachers that they have taken two tub baths a week, nor entertain men in Engaged Parlor ("a kind of goldfish bowl"), nor go to chapel. They are almost a full year younger (17.8), two inches taller (5 ft. 5 in.), eleven pounds heavier (126), bigger around the waist, have nearly twice the lung capacity of the class of 1885. They may have men visitors in their rooms (afternoons), import Yale men for male parts in their plays, leave...
Into an Indianapolis hospital, three years ago, interns carried a screaming two-year-old girl who had just fallen over backwards into a scalding tub of water. Her burns were not deep, but they stretched from her plump shoulders to her knees. She had a 1-to-3 chance to live...