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...Washington on a business trip. As a close friend, he was at Truman's side from the minute he took over in the White House. It was Good Friend Ed McKim who, when the Trumans moved from their apartment to Blair House, gathered up their bric-a-brac, rode on a truck with it to the White House...
...settings are excellent: this is the New York of the early century without the dependence on costume with which Hollywood is so often content. So many of these period pieces are in technicolor, with gala balls and sparkling lights. "Experiment Perlious emphasizes plush and bric-a-brac furnishings of the claustrophobic New York houses that graced the day and are in many cases still standing; in this respect it excels its cinematic model, "Gaslight...
...creations, and their members are under his control until committed to action. Although Goebbels holds the imposing title of Reich Plenipotentiary for the Total War Effort, in that role the little man is simply Himmler's assistant, a sort of glorified collector of old clothes, hardware and bric-a-brac for the Army...
...year there was a small Hartley exhibition, and a few pictures were sold. His steady industry also resulted in three volumes of sincere verse (Twenty-Five Poems; Androscoggin; Sea Burial), and a book of essays (Adventures in the Arts). His hobbies were concocting perfumes, collecting Coptic textiles and antique bric-a-brac...
Last week word went around Manhattan that some of the mildewed bundles of art had been rescued, could be seen in the back room of a dingy Canal Street bric-a-brac shop run by one Henry C. Roberts. Art dealers snapped up hundreds of pictures at $3 to $5 apiece. They planned to clean, mount, frame and resell them...