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Topolski's art is in the tradition of the great draftsmen Daumier, Callot, Hogarth, his earlier work astoundingly like that of France's Benjamin-Constant. Says Topolski: "My particular love, my aim, and object in art" is Descriptive Draftsmanship-which he believes to be perishing...
Last week in London the U.S. Army Air Forces commissioned Major Benjamin Lyon, 41, of Baltimore, Hollywood and British Broadcasting Corp. The Army also qualified him for active service, presumably as an earth-bound intelligence officer (despite his 1,100 pre-war flying hours, his transport pilot's ticket...
Divorced from University of California's English Professor Benjamin H. Lehman, Actress Anderson lives near Hollywood with her 80-year-old mother in a rambling white house overlooking the Pacific, gardens, rides, shuns bright lights. Though she makes movies from time to time (Rebecca, Kings Row), Hollywood spells security for her, not art. Says she: "In Hollywood, you merely do Scene 22 at nine, Scene 16 at eleven, Scene 7 at three. It's a good place to learn...
...words speak for themselves. The old distinctions of American thinkers into Federalists and Democrats, agrarians, mercantilists, industrialists, capitalists lose importance in the face of united insistence abroad on the superiority, the inevitable future growth of America. Not only Jefferson, John Adams and Tom Paine were united in this. Benjamin Rush, Surgeon General during part of the Revolution, calmly declared after it that two-thirds of Pennsylvania's farmers had reached "the perfection of civilization." Even the occasional doubting moods of the Founding Fathers were spirited, compared with the dry despair of later scholars like Henry Adams, or the nebulous...
...later years Caroline Webster sometimes watered a redheaded parrot in the belief that it was a geranium. But when she reached England with the statesman she always calls "Mr. W," she was still in her prime and determined to miss nothing. England was impressed by rugged, eloquent Mr. W. Benjamin Disraeli noticed Webster's "fine brow, lofty, broad, and beetled, deepset eyes." Wrote Philosopher Carlyle to Emerson: "He is a magnificent specimen...