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...such good use that the chances are it will charm him instead. For The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is an uncommonly rich and pleasant study in character, both human and national. It brings to the screen the greatest English character since Pickwick: Cartoonist David Low's walrus-whiskered epitome of unenlightened self-interest...
...painters, fame comes easily and early, with the rolling drums of ballyhoo. This week Manhattan is having a look at a one-man show by Julian Levi, who has built himself a reputation the slow, hard, un-pressagented way. A slight, soft-spoken man with a fierce walrus moustache, Southpaw Painter Levi weathered the depression as a WPArtist, has since sold his work to 15 ranking U.S. museums. His quiet, low-keyed canvases now bring from...
Died. Ellison DuRant ("Cotton Ed") Smith, 80, walrus-mustached, unreconstructed Democratic Senator from South Carolina for 35 years (longest consecutive Senatorial term in U.S. history); of coronary thrombosis; in Lynchburg, S.C. Perched on cotton bales in a mule-drawn wagon, Cotton Ed galumphed through South Carolina, roaring his belief that in his God-blessed state a family could have security on 50? a day. A pain in the New Deal's side, he championed "white supremacy," the poll tax, states' rights. Last July, roundly trounced in the Democratic primaries by Governor Olin Johnston, he returned to his dirt...
...would hack petulantly away on the arm of his chair with a penknife. The old man (80) has a somewhat high-pitched voice, corkscrewing oddly out of his mastiff jowls; his stature is small and his build square. But his bulldog face, his straight-backed bearing, his scraggly walrus mustache, and his command of epithet have given him a compelling ferocity...
...Brown Perils) this daily matinee is the sum total of Bob Reynolds' Senate achievements. His only other distinctions: that he was one of the Senate's most rabid isolationists until "We were attacked, suh!"; that he is rabidly antilabor; that he once shot an Alaskan bull walrus at 20 paces; that he once kissed the late Jean Harlow on the Capitol steps...