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...portrait of Katharine Cornell was hung near the top of the main stairway, so that nearly everyone looked at it once when they came in and a second time when they went out. The first scrutiny was the more satisfactory. Artist Poole had put the actress against a dark background, wrapped her in a black cape, painted her hands brown, thin and nervous. Her face looked out from all this gloom with the terror of a child's half-dream in the dark. Nonetheless, the characterization was too taut and theatrical...
Young men and women skilled when things are slippery marched in a parade. Scarlet, green, white and warm fur-brown glowed in their costumes. Flags of the nations snapped in the snow-choked gusts above their heads. Through the storm bulky spires of high Alps sketched in a towering background...
...White House and at which they may submit written questions, shall not be regarded or referred to in any sense as an interview. There must be no reference to questions asked and answered; no direct revelation of what the President is thinking about. The Presidential thoughts shall be "background," not "news...
...Burnham had wanted a baby. These facts she admitted freely (TIME, Jan. 30). Newspapers empurpled columns with the history, speculated as to papa, collected opinions from bigwigs and gumchewers. To deepen the secret of her collaborator's identity, who had been chosen because he "had the proper eugenic background," Mother Burnham refused to pose her progeny for photographers. Picture papers pined...
...Courier-Journal, last week, the Central Furniture Co. of Louisville inserted a full-page advertisement of a sale. Around the edge of the page, in the corners of the page, through the middle of the page, were pictures of elephants, elephants, elephants, silhouetted in white against a black background. In all there were 21 small white elephants, one large white elephant. Under each small frisky pachyderm was noted some item included in the sale, as "Jumbo Specials in Bedroom Suites," "White Elephant Kitchen Cabinets," "White Elephant...