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...United States Delegate to the United Nations Marietta Peabody Tree, likes being a model because it is fun. Says she: "I've met people I love whom I probably would never have met otherwise, and I think the camera is the newest and most exciting implement since the paintbrush." Besides, although the gesture is scarcely necessary, modeling will allow her to pay her own way through Sarah Lawrence College, where she is a freshman. "It's an easy way to get money," says Penelope...
...Gallery, his own childlike oil-on-canvas pictures are bringing from $700 to $1,400 apiece, and he has learned to sign them Emile Gauguin. He has reformed too, says fortyish mentor, Madame Josette Giraud, a French writer who bailed him out of jail several times and put a paintbrush in his hand. When word gets back to the islands, the artist can be proud, for even the austere London Times called his 61 canvases "a life document of touching simplicity...
Riddleberger's contacts with pitchfork, trowel and paintbrush were strictly as a young man in Woodstock, Va. He studied at Georgetown University, taught international relations there for three years after taking his master's degree, won appointment to his first foreign service post, vice consul in Geneva, in 1929. After a long career as a specialist in German affairs he was sent to Belgrade in 1953, worked hard at his end to get the Yugoslavs to enter into the agreement with Italy settling the nagging Trieste problem. In early 1958, President Eisenhower appointed him Ambassador to Greece...
...samurai sword flash twice toward her own body, leaving her armless. Her berserk adoptive father, the manager of the teahouse, had lopped off the heads of five of the six people sleeping under his roof that night. Primarily a dancer, she painfully mastered a new art. Holding a paintbrush between her teeth, she learned to paint ideograms and to draw designs on silk belts. Reading her own poetry, she won new fame throughout Japan. Tsumakichi, too, eventually entered a Buddhist nunnery, and is still alive, surrounded at 67 by the reverence that is accorded a Helen Keller...
...celebration of Corpus Christi. It was the annual great event in many a village like Vingone. Children scoured the hillsides searching for flowers to string into garlands for the streets. Mothers sewed on fancy-dress costumes for the procession of the Eucharist through the streets, while their husbands wielded paintbrush and hammer on the decorations. And lilting in every heart in the village was the thought of the wining, dining and dancing that would follow; in every heart, that is, but the heart of Don Camillo. Instead of joining the festive preparations, Don Camillo posted a notice in the church...