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...Alexander used to be of an insignificant appearance. Though his mind and features were slowly maturing, hardening, this change was obscured by the fact that when one beheld the King, one's attention was monopolized by the little tufts of black. Not until the "dentist" put away his "tooth-brush"?not until the historic week when His Majesty w ent to Paris and there shaved off his mustache (TIME, Nov. 26)?did 12,000,000 Jugoslavs begin to recognize that his matured and resolute countenance is that of a dictator (see front cover...
...newspaper work, when he learns the mechanical mysteries of how half-tones are made and how the presses rhythmically roll out their printed pages, but his vanity is tickled by the thrill of seeing his own handiwork impressed on thousands of papers. His photographer's pass permits him to brush elbows with his professional brethren of the "Fourth Estate" at intercollegiate baseball games and track meets...
...Member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Painter Salisbury has done the portraits of England's King, Queen and Archbishop of Canterbury. Many a U. S. Tycoon, including George F. Baker, the late great Elbert Gary, and Andrew Mellon, has sat for the Salisbury brush. The Coolidge portraits should be finished in another fortnight. President and Mrs. Coolidge have agreed to sit daily...
...page headed "Gift Suggestions in the Modern Spirit." There is perhaps a little too much flattery of Fougasse--three pages of small, serial drawings are rather a big dose, even for those who have formed the habit Blackburn's drawings are a good corrective: he wields a broad brush, and his humor is not thin...
This collection is a group of twenty stories which have appeared in American magazines from August 1927 to June 1928. The list of authors is made up of men and women reasonably well known and include Katherine Brush, Frederick Brennan, Fannie Hurst, Irwin Cobb, Louis Bromfield and Dorothy Parker...