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...last portrait, which Picasso painted in 1939, Sabartés repeats a puzzled dialogue with his own doctor, who had never before seen a Picasso. "What astonishes me," the doctor had sensibly remarked to Sabartés, "is to see the nose going one way and the lips and chin another, as if the face were in profile, and the head both in profile and full face at the same time but in a different direction from the eyes, except that one of them is hanging in the air while the glasses are upside down...
...expedition was headed by Baltimore-raised Moon F. Chin, once Chiang Kai-shek's personal pilot. "I don't think the mountains are as high as Mr. Reynolds claims," he said. "But we might as well see." With him went 14 Chinese and foreign correspondents, two technicians, and a Chinese crew armed with radar equipment...
...Pilot Chin circled and zigzagged over the range (most of the time at 18,000 ft.), found no competitors for Mt. Everest. The tallest peak he saw (22,000 ft.) was not among the Amne Machins but in the Kuolo range near by. Tallest Amne Machin peak observed: 19,000 ft. Drawled Chin: "I never thought those mountains were very high. But I didn't expect they'd be that damn...
Said one commissioner: "We're sticking our chin out but we're right. A champ's gotta fight." Added Chief Commissioner Col. Harvey L. Miller: "O.K., the kid runs away from the Army. But then he paid his debt to the country. He serves ten months in the Fort Leavenworth disciplinary barracks...
...Chin-Chow (1916) holds a longer record for the London stage: 2,238 performances...