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...brilliant, relatively intimate paintings, crayons and drawings which the 89-year-old Italian left in his Paris studio at his death in 1931. In his smaller works (minimum price: $400 for a sketch) Boldini showed a direct mastery of the Proustian atmospheres which he heightened to exoticism in his fake, flower-like portraits of women...
...caring--only that he has laughed until he is weak. "Nothing Sacred" is very much like "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town." Miss Lombard is the girl from a small town who goes to New York for the time of her life (although the method of getting her there is fake radium poisoning in this case) and Mr. March is the reporter who sells her to the city and eventually falls in love with here Walter Connolly is the big, blustering newspaper editor concerned with scoops and the glory of his profession. The whole is done in color--good color...
Commonest and dullest trick to make advertising copy seem imperative is the fake newspaper front page. However, when one of Massachusetts' tireless, keen-eyed radio "hams" spied such an imaginary newspaper page heading a radio tube advertisement in her January copy of the magazine QST, she took a magnifying glass to the tiny glyphs under a headline GOOD NEWS! Shocked, she tattled to her postmaster that she had discovered something far from dull. He called in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Hygrade Sylvania Corp., which made the tubes, shifted the blame to its advertising agency. The agency communicated hotly...
...Ireland is hooey, Ireland is A gallery of fake tapestries, But I cannot deny my past to which my self is wed, The woven figure cannot undo its thread...
They went even crazier when the Redskins scored first in the first quarter after "Slingin' Sam" Baugh had whipped a pass to the Chicago 7-yd. line and Cliff Battles had gone around right end on a fake pass. Then the Bears warmed up and scored two quick touchdowns, both by Jack Manders, the league's leading scorer. The quarter ended with the Bears leading 14-to-7. The second quarter was scoreless, and Redskin rooters moaned when Sam Baugh was pulled out from under four of the larger Bears and was led off the field...