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...southwestern Iran what had been for years a chronic famine has now deepened into acute starvation. Emaciated Iranian citizens can be seen sitting around in streets and doorways, their bones almost sticking through their skins, their eyes seeming to pop out of their heads, lacking the energy even to brush away the swarms of flies covering their bodies. Scores of beggars greet incoming travelers. Still greatly flourishing is the opium poppy, which withstands drought, is immune from locust attacks. Despite the bustling, superficial prosperity of Teheran, all was not well last week in the Empire of the Shah-in-Shah...
...Frank W. Benson, who is said to have earned $1,000,000 from duck pictures alone; Edward Herbert Miner's Man o' War and Four of His Famous Get; the winter canvases of A. Sheldon Pennoyer, who dashes down ski slopes as easily as he dashes off brush strokes; big-game wood carvings by Blackfoot Indian John Louis Clarke (Man-Who-Talks...
...year after she was graduated from Gushing Academy, Ashburnham, Mass., Bette, then 19, went to Manhattan, had her discomfiting brush with Le Gallienne, later enrolled in John Murray Anderson's dramatic school. When a chance came to play in George Cukor's stock production of Broadway in Rochester, Ruthie sent her off with a blessing and the admonition to learn both her own part and that of the leading lady, because "the lead is going to break...
...spinal cord were injured at birth, causing spastic paralysis (muscular rigidity). But Sylva was endowed with high courage. She learned to read, turned the pages of her books with her tongue. She used a typewriter by poking the keys with a pencil held between her teeth. With a brush between her teeth she tinted photographs, made drawings. She was careful of her appearance, applied her own cosmetics by moving her face against lipsticks and powderpuffs. Her parents took her to the cinema in her wheel chair...
...eaten with impunity. A big sheet of glazed paper is dipped in water, spread smooth on a table, and gobs of color are dropped on it. The child then swirls the mixture over the paper with both hands, fingers, even forearms, continually creating new designs. Having no crayon or brush to cramp his fingers the child relaxes. Out of his tactile reverie emerge elaborate, rhythmic designs and fantastic forms, which artists admire and psychologists value as a medium of release from nightmares and other oppressions...