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Nowhere was there any hint of Renoir's own hardships. Although he spent the last 25 years of his life fighting a losing battle with constant illness, no personal gloom ever disfigured or darkened the 4,000 canvases he completed before his death in 1919. When a stuffy teacher, annoyed by his high spirits, once said sardonically, "You seem to take painting as fun," Renoir quickly replied: "If painting were not fun to me, I should certainly...
...Last week Chief of Naval Operations Forrest Sherman ordered him placed on indefinite furlough at half pay, beginning next month. The order, by stripping Crommelin of his flight pay and allowances, will reduce his monthly paycheck from $1,041.75 to $334.87. Obviously the Navy hoped Crommelin would take the hint and leave active service: he was eligible to retire at $452.08 a month, based on his 27 years of service...
There was little of Flatbush left in the dark-eyed, glamour-bobbed brunette who called herself Yvette Madsen. Only a hint of Canarsie in her consonants, a touch of Gowanus in her vowels remained to mark her as plain Jane Noack, a kid born in Brooklyn 22 years ago. Yvette was glad enough to have left Jane behind...
...Walter, one of Britain's leading physiologists, does not think Elmer ana Elsie are entirely reliable tools for studying the human nervous system. But they have given him one good hint, he says. The human brain has something like ten billion nerve cells. Elmer and Elsie have the equivalent of only two, but even with this simple equipment, they give a lifelike performance. This observation suggests to Dr. Walter that the cells of the human brain may act in large groups, rather than independently. "In fact," he says, "it is possible that the brain may not be quite...
...Cedric Hardwicke and Frances Leighton give excellent unsentimental performances of Ronnie's father and sister. Arthur Winslow spends his health and, with his daughter's approval, her dowry to clear the family honor. Yet there is never a hint of hand-wringing or "What-Shall-We-Do?" histronics. The feeling of continued hardship is worked in by the skillful use of gloomy, gray photography...