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...Famous for his hatred of varnish, Directo van Puyvelde has cleaned up many a Flemish masterpiece, disclosed last Christmas on nymph's leg and one baby's bottom in picture by Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678) which had been painted over in prudish generations. "Patina," he snorted, "used to be bought by the Belgian State for 100 francs a bottle. . . . It's called that 'Old Gold' tone. Pfui...
...bank of a small lake, with a minimum of excavation-a balanced set of simple building-masses rimmed by open terraces. The interior gracefully conformed to requirements with: 1) a stage adaptable to every kind of entertainment, 2) ample dressing and property rooms, 3) wide aisles and plenty of leg room, 4) full visibility and sound acoustics, 5) an art gallery in the lobby for leg-and-neck-stretching between acts...
...years Hearst made a thousand city room legends, hired & fired many thousands of men. He spent fortunes for trained seals, but he never gave a leg man a decent wage if he could help it. Most people hated him and he had to take his name off Metrotone News, but the few who are still close to Hearst love him with Irish sentimentality. Paul Y. Anderson called him "a horse-faced man with a squeaky...
About midway in the first period the Crimson lost the services of Sophomore starter Bob James, who had returned to the fray to replace Fred Heckel almost immediately after the first team entered the game. James suffered a recurrence of the leg injury he received during football season...
Because of the slovenly conduct of the trip; because of Stead's failure to find his position by a simple standard orientation problem; because the Oakland office failed to recognize the inconsistency of Stead's course with the course to be flown on the northeast leg, and for many other reasons, the Air Board found: 1) that the crash was due primarily to bad judgment by Pilot Stead and two Oakland dispatchers, Thomas P. Van Sceiver and Philip Stever Showalter; 2) that U. A. L.'s procedures for aiding aircraft under such an emergency were inadequate...