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Perhaps you have seen his paintings. It might be his poetry that you recall having read or having had read to you, as is his wont. And then again, it might be that you have sat in on one of his lectures, half asleep from the maze of electronic symbols on the blackboard but at the same time awake to the rhythm of his accented voice, rich with its Russian overtones. No matter what the contact might have been, however, one thing is certain. If you have once met Pietr Matvayevich Bulieba you will not easily forget...
...doing splendidly. But last week his art boom had the mange. He had spent some $25,000 in good taxpayers' cash for "old masters." There were some 38 paintings, all from the collection of Warner S. McCall, retired St. Louis public-utilities developer, a man who was wont to tread on rare Tabriz rugs and drink from cut glass goblets said to have been fingered by mad King Ludwig of Bavaria. Some of McCall's paintings bore such signatures as Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony Van Dyck, Sir Thomas Gainsborough. But certain Memphis newsmen were not impressed. They called...
Columnist Pegler was not there to see the show. He was agonizing, as is his editorial wont, over his next day's column on his 35-acre Westchester County estate (where the pond is known to Pegler friends as Lake Malice). When Pegler heard of the demonstration he promptly wrote another fire-eating column on N.M.U., tartly reminded his readers that early in 1941 N.M.U. had picketed...
Fascism's Labor Day came & went in Italy last week with scarcely a ripple of celebration. Duce Mussolini, who in bet ter days was wont to show himself barechested, building walls in the former Pontine Marshes, was chest-deep in other, less healthy labor. For the second time in a fortnight he shook up his Party leader ship. Tunisia was on his mind. So was his slowly crumbling Blackshirt State. A new generation of resistance was gathering its strength in Italy...
Captain the Rt. Hon. Edward Algernon Fitzroy was 138th Speaker in a line dating back to 1377; none had died in office since 1789, when Charles Cornwall took the last of the great draughts of porter with which he was "wont to relieve the weariness of his office...