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Torches guttered, decorous demands were spurned. The only injury (a leg almost squished between two insolent chariots) was as crippling as the single egg yolk splattered on Mass. Ave. One freshman turned to run, but he was nabbed by an Argus-eyed research fellow...
...Mimbo. Durrell seems to lend his animals the qualities of far-out British eccentrics. There was the egg-eating snake which absorbed the yolk and white, regurgitated the crushed shell. There was Bug-Eyes, the needle-clawed female lemur, who daintily dabbed at her petal-thin ears with a drop of her own water as if applying perfume. But the most colorful character in the book is not an animal but the Fon of Bafut, a royal hedonist with a joyous appetite for women, dance, song and drink, in the form of tumblers of Scotch, gin and mimbo, the native...
...Artist Benton is still cocky and rebellious, still thumbs down even the impressionists, and still puts in a ferocious day's work in his Kansas City (Mo.) studio in a converted stable. Because of an allergy, he has switched from egg yolk, once his favorite medium, to acrylic resin; because artificial light bothers his failing eyes, he paints only in daylight, often keeps his evenings illuminated with just a log fire...
WHEN Cover Artist Robert Vickrey was assigned to paint the portrait of Morocco's Princess Aisha, he flew into Rabat with TIME Correspondent William McHale, his easel, paints and two fresh eggs. Vickrey paints in egg tempera, needs one egg yolk for each sitting, always carries a spare egg in case of emergency. At their hotel in Rabat, said McHale, "I asked the bartender for two fresh eggs for my friend." The bartender replied: "Your friend, he is a magician?" Said McHale: "No, he's a painter." Asked the bartender: "He paints eggs?" "No," said McHale, "he paints...
Died. Viscount Cherwell (The Rt. Hon. Frederick Alexander Lindemann), 71, Oxford Professor (1919-56) of Experimental Philosophy (physics), aeronautics and atomic-energy expert, Sir Winston Churchill's longtime confidant, troubleshooter, and wartime scientific adviser; in Oxford. A teetotaling, vegetarian bachelor ("The yolk of an egg is altogether too exciting"), "The Prof" devised a paper solution to the problem of tailspin during World War I, learned to fly in three weeks, triumphantly tested his theory in person. Summoned by Churchill early in World War II ("He could decipher signals from the experts on the far horizon, and explain...