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Does he use measurements to paint by? "Oh, no. I use this eye mostly [pointing to his left one] and I hold my head in one spot, like a camera, instead of ducking it around. That may sound a bit rigid, but I think craftsmanship should be uppermost. You build the picture up, very faithfully. The less art you try to put into it the better...
...must somehow help, Knox lived on bread & butter for six weeks. When the friend died, Knox prayed for him 15 minutes daily "with my hands held above the level of my head, which is not as easy as it sounds." At 17, he vowed himself to celibacy: "The uppermost thought in my mind was not that of virginity ... I must have 'power to attend to the Lord without impediment...
Holy Cross will journey down the pike to Cambridge today to engage in a bitter athletic joust with Harvard. They will be very serious minded young men who will carry the Royal Purple onto the Stadium Lawn, and two football games will be uppermost in their minds...
...Uppermost in the mind of every solon is the fact is the fact that a Presidential election is less than two years away. There are 51 potential Presidents among Senate Republicans. Even the baby Senators are getting illusions of grandeur. No one wants to tie himself to a party program until he has had more time to sound out public feeling, and Republicans are still in doubt as to the exact meaning of their November "mandate." For these reasons the eightieth Congress is likely to be notable for what it does...
After that Ben talked a blue streak. His vocabulary was limited to just those three words: "I want one." But he pronounced them for chocolate, beer, bones and other delicacies. People flocked to hear Ben utter the three words that are uppermost in the minds of food-rationed Britons: "I want one." London newsmen "interviewed" Ben. Dog fanciers bid for him (top offer to date: ?500). For one and for all, Ben said graciously: "I want...