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...best known to the public for his enlistment poster of a Jehovic Uncle Sam demanding I WANT YOU, for which he used himself as the model. As an illustrator, however, he favored beautiful women as his subjects; some of his best works are portraits of the famous, including Mark Twain, John and Ethel Barrymore. Susan Meyer's book offers a wide selection of Flagg's relaxed yet robust drawings, paintings and poster art, and fondly fills in the lively biographical gaps...
Reason is, East never meets West anymore, and the twain ne'er looked farther apart. Except for one man's grid empire in the Alleghenies, all the East can boast is four of nine letters in "Southeast," indications this fall of renewed life in the Atlantic Coast Conference and a few scattered All-Americans and All-Easties playing in post-season bowls--including Harvard's Pat McInally (appearing at the Shrine East-West game in San Francisco December 28, the Hula Bowl in Honolulu January 4 and the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Ala., January 11...and in doing so, breaking...
...like Mark Twain: he wanted to be some important business whiz and finally that drove him crazy. And Twain didn't even have people like Twain as precedents. It's easy to have a take on the whole success syndrome...
Fabled residents have included writers like Mark Twain and O. Henry, Thomas Wolfe and Dylan Thomas. Today the Chelsea is the permanent domain of Composer Virgil Thomson, the spot that Playwright Arthur Miller chooses to stay at when he is in town opening a new play, and the regular New York stopover for a host of luminaries from the world of art, music, film and fiction, who, along with its dozens of regular residents, prefer the funky, faded chic of the Chelsea to more contemporary quarters uptown. Perennial Chelsea guests include the entire Fonda clan, Director John Houseman and Actors...
Classic restaurants are blooming around such nostalgic themes as old automobiles-for instance, Doug's Body Shop in Detroit, where diners can consume their filet mignon in a 1951 Packard-a building in Buffalo reconstructed from Mark Twain's old home, and an exquisite old Claremont, Calif., high school. There is also a streetcar manufacturing plant in San Francisco that serves only spaghetti dishes; and a reconstructed Colorado-style mining camp called The Chicago Claim Company, where luncheon menus are printed on land-claim certificates, and the decor features outsize mining pans. The place is, literally, a gold...