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...years, gave way in 1946 to an impressive successor, Caltech Physicist William V. Houston (pronounced How-ston v. the city of Hew-ston). No backslapping money raiser, Researcher Houston had a dream financial setup going for him. Though it may some day require students to pay tuition, Rice grows fatter on oil income by the year. It never even badgers alumni for cash. When emergencies arise, Rice simply turns to its rich friends and trustees...
...only now beginning to shake off the shock of the sudden falloff. British auto factories, after cutting back production and putting many workers on short time, are now approaching normal production again. Despite a 37% drop in sales to the U.S. last year, British automakers hope to regain a fatter share of the market. Says Rootes Motors, Inc.'s Managing Director John T. Panks: "It's nothing but bloody nonsense that the imported car is about to vanish from the U.S. market." To prove his case, Rootes sent to the show a new Humber Super-Snipe sedan designed...
...gift of Dublin's Abbey Theater to Hollywood; following a brain operation; in Dublin. From 1917 to 1929 Fitzgerald (real name: William Joseph Shields) led a double life as a bookkeeper for the Dublin Board of Trade by day, by evening an Abbey player in ever-fatter roles. Then famed Playwright Sean O'Casey wrote The Silver Tassie, and Fitzgerald opened it in London as a fulltime actor, quickly became the vogue in brogue. His Hollywood zenith came in 1945, when he won an Oscar for his supporting role as a cantankerous but lovable old priest in Going...
...England, "The arts are freezing in this city." Armed with letters of introduction from the old scholar, Hans finally settled in England, where he painted everyone from Sir Thomas More to King Henry VIII himself. He made a couple of visits home, but each time returned to his fatter commissions in England, and there in 1543 he died of the plague...
...high-fee portraiture and many other of his paintings of ladies, Dutch-born Paris Artist Kees Van Dongen, 83, has never made a secret of his profitable penchant to "paint women slimmer than they are and their jewels fatter." In the '20s, Dongen enhanced this effect in the fashion of the age, often painted his women with short-shingled hair, excessive eye and lip makeup. Making a small sensation in Manhattan last week, U.S. Designer Norman Norell trotted out his fall collection, featuring elegant divided skirts. He expressed his due appreciation for his show's success...