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Unlike his fantasy-ridden English namesake, this pseudonymous William Blake is (besides being a lot of other things) an impressionist who covers huge canvases with a sprawling, vigorous brush. His first novel, The World Is Mine, was a full-blooded story of international high finance spiced with intrigue, war and revolution. Last week he followed it up by The Painter and The Lady, an equally full-blooded story of modern France which begins in a café, ends at the guillotine...
...concerned, nothing seemed to click. Then, one day, in 1875, he found that charcoal was his meat. From charcoal drawings he went on to lithography. It had taken him 25 years to discover the proper medium for what he saw, and he scarcely dipped a brush in oils for another 20 years...
...Beta Theta Pi) was his aristocratic friend Paul Vories McNutt, whom Willkie still likes to josh at Indiana University alumni dinners. But in two or three years Willkie's socialism wore out. As a senior he even broke down and joined the pompadoured Betas, but he did not brush his hair...
...months' training. Few of the 30,000 20-year-old militiamen - first of 200,000 drafted-had ever been away from home for more than a fortnight, found little heel-clicking or saluting at camps, were informally introduced to their officers, given a razor, shaving brush, comb, toothbrush and a post card, ordered to drop their families a note saying they arrived safely...
...most interesting, was twelve-year-old Alex Kozloff, a Brooklyn carpenter's son, who beamed beside three small bright oils. His Coney Island was a broad copy of pictures he had seen on Sunday trips to museums, but his uninhibited use of paint and his free brush were evident. Sea Beach, he says proudly, "is out of my head...