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...Steen, too, had trouble making ends meet. But Steen was content to eke out his living as a brewer and innkeeper. Frans Hals, as great a virtuoso of the brush as ever lived, put clear understanding into his Jolly Toper (opposite). The Toper (which remarkably resembles Actor Van Heflin in the role of Athos of the Three Musketeers) has the eyes and mouth of any man on the higher slopes of inebriation. If universality was Hals's hallmark, particularity was that of Pieter de Hooch. Not one artist working today could make a tennis match on a Westchester estate...
...know, small knolls, they're very good for walking. Build up your muscles, going up and down the knolls . . . [My] teeth are so puffect that everybody thinks they're false. Do you know why they're puffect? 'Cause I take care of them. I brush 'em all the time. Sometimes I can hardly wait to get to the bathroom and start brushing my teeth...
Nobody seemed to see any particular change in Billy. The only foretaste of his future pre-eminence came in the summer after high school, when he became a Fuller brush salesman. He not only outsold every other salesman in North Carolina but the district sales manager as well...
...Selvage movement in 1954 is not Case's first brush with the ultraconservative element of New Jersey Republicanism. In 1952, after he supported Dwight Eisenhower for the G.O.P. nomination, he made a speech warning the party against its "irreconcilable elements." One news paper story interpreted this as a Case effort to read Ohio's Robert A. Taft and his followers out of the party. Case denied any such intent, and Taft came into New Jersey and endorsed Case. Nevertheless, some Taft followers sought to defeat...
...blue-chip cast, all old pros, managed to brush away much of Royal Family's dust. Fredric March, who played Tony, the skirt-chasing screen idol, in both Hollywood and Broadway versions, roared and pranced through the TV adaptation with his old gusto. Helen Hayes, as the family's irascible matriarch, and Claudette Colbert, as the harassed heroine, played warmly and well, supported by the harrumphs of Charles Coburn as the family manager. As a play, Royal Family was not the best starter for a prestige builder. The madcap antics, the entrances and exits tended to jumble...