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Last week Canadian newspapers carried the most inept recruiting advertisement yet printed. It showed a young man frowning, chin in hand. The text screamed: "Have I got the 'Guts'? Ask yourself this question. One look in your mirror will give you the answer. Am I man or mouse...
Suitable Match. Outside the Stadium entrances, in the long perambulatory corridor, the cardboard placards mounted on poles (a blown-up Dewey photograph; Dewey the People's Choice; Dewey Witt Win) were piled in chin-high clumps. They were the same nononsense, black-lettered placards which had decorated the sober-looking Dewey headquarters at the Stevens Hotel for two days. Delegates who had visited the businesslike headquarters to look in awe at the machinelike efficiency of the Dewey staff had already seen them...
Dawley took it on the chin, maintained a soldierly silence, worked hard. Last week he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general. Insiders said that one reason he was on the comeback road was that the disciplinary action against him may have been a bit hasty...
Inspired Vacuity. The Phaidon Velazquez reproduces 13 of the painter's immortalizations of his royal master's vacuous stare, massy chin and handlebar mustachios which at night he kept in perfumed leather cases. There is also an inspired side show of infantas, royal dwarfs, idiots, buffoons and a little gallery of Velazquez' early, almost photographic genre pictures done in his precourt days when Velazquez used to brag: "I would rather be the first of the vulgar painters than the second of the refined ones." In strong contrast are a number of the passionless religious paintings of which...
They argue that chinchilla has been off the market for so long that it is virtually a new fur, and has to resell itself. But many a furrier doubts that it will. Chin chilla fur is so perishable - and so valuable - that some owners have kept their coats in cold storage, brought them out only on state occasions. Ranchers say that the new "chins" are tougher, point out that most chinchilla coats in existence have already lasted 20 to 30 years. But, as one skeptical furrier cracked last week: "We have more people who want to sell chinchillas than want...