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That craftsmanly joy in painting kept him working to the end, propped up in a wheelchair with a brush strapped to his arthritic fingers. Last week Manhattan gallerygoers could see the result of those last pain-racked hours: healthy, big-hipped servant girls looking as flushed and happy as if they had just stepped out of a steam bath...
There were other objections, which the men of Atlantic Union are apt to brush off with statistics (which obviously do not satisfy all their listeners) or to dismiss impatiently as emotional or irrelevant. The State Department itself had two crushing replies to Atlantic Unionists: i) to get involved in all sorts of controversial discussions with U.S. allies over money, debts, immigration, etc., at this critical point might divide the Atlantic allies instead of uniting them; 2) there was as yet no widespread demand for their plan, either in the U.S. or abroad...
...Came to Dinner. In Denver, thieves broke into Barbara Klo-berdans' apartment, took $30 cash, $49 worth of clothes, ate some potato salad, drank some Scotch, found varnish and brush in the kitchen cabinet and touched up the door they had splintered...
Bible illustrations were the talk of Paris last week. The 270 pen & brush drawings on display in the Galerie Beaux-Arts ranged from Genesis to Revelation. More skilled than inspired, they were the work of Edy Legrand, one of France's slickest book illustrators. Obviously determined to achieve an atmosphere of truth to nature and history, Artist Legrand had turned his back on the usual modern mishmash of beards, flowing sheets and halos, had drawn lean, Semitic men & women and placed them in landscapes as stark as the hills of Judea...
...Documentation? Jaunty in a blue suit and bow tie, small, brush-mustached Author Blanshard started things off with his statement for the affirmative. He began with an emphatic denial that he was opposed to Roman Catholicism as a faith ; he was against it only as a "system of power which I think is encroaching on American democracy." As one of his proofs of the Catholic Church's "fundamentally undemocratic nature," he pointed out that the 26 million U.S. Catholics have "never been allowed a plenary session," and don't even own their own buildings. Their priests, he said...