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...Harrison ("Best-Dressed") Williams was back in Capri after long exile in Manhattan and Palm Beach. The tireless, chin-up hostess and amateur flower gardener flew across, picked up her old chauffeur in Paris en route. Soon word came back to the New York World-Telegram's society editor that "Mona" was "seen daily being driven through the streets of Capri in first one, then another of her long, sleek and luxurious limousines...
...graduation (1903) and onetime vice-chancellor of Belfast University, Sir Richard at 65 is a man with a straggly mustache, pink complexion and owlish eyes peering over gold-rimmed spectacles. Livingstone stalks across the Oxford quadrangles, mortarboard jammed squarely on his thinning hair, his black M.A. gown flowing, his chin thrust well forward...
...practical reason for believing that one picture is worth a thousand words: it takes so long for them to write the words. And all their written words are conventionalized pictures anyway. Last week a new typewriter designed to speed up Chinese writing was exhibited in Manhattan. Chinese engineer Chung-Chin Kao had had the idea. International Business Machines Corp. had translated it into an electro-automatic Chinese typewriter. (Chinese typewriters are not new, but most models have been clumsy and inefficient...
When he was learning his trade 15 years ago writing TIME'S Books section, and turning out some poetry and an occasional novel of his own, one of Matthews' novels moved a fellow critic to begin his review as follows: "Thomas Stanley Matthews, 30, has a chin that sticks out from under a nose, eye, and brow that might have belonged to St. Paul, patron saint of his preparatory school (Concord...
...Queen has a very round figure with the small ankles and slim lower legs of a woman who would rather eat than bother with her weight. I feel safe in saying that her wardrobe is unimaginative. I'll just add that she avoids a very definite double chin by holding her head well...