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...Daily Express editor, he gets to work in midmorning after having read all other London papers, works often until after midnight, with time out for large and lengthy lunches and dinners. His lone bow to sartorial propriety is a black Homburg hat, the high-toned effect of which he habitually voids by wearing with it a fuzzy, natural-color camel's hair coat...
...Thurber dogs group themselves on a grassy bank to watch a family of human beings pass: "There go the most intelligent of all animals." One of Thurber's masterpieces carries no caption at all. A simple drawing which out-surrealizes a whole school of artists, it shows a lone, wan male cowering before a house whose whole three-storied back has somehow melted into the head of the waiting woman. The book also reproduces Thurber's famous 17 drawings illustrating The War Between Men and Women (including The Fight in the Grocery and Zero Hour-Connecticut...
...undesignated part of Italy when he was approached by a hopeful co-belligerent who said he was offering some interesting bargains in literary curiosa. As he flashed a tantalizing glimpse of his wares, the ambulance man noticed, among copies of "Spicy Tales," "Stolen Sweets," and the like, a lone, haughty copy of the Harvard "Alumni Bulletin." --New Yorker...
...lone investor paid $2,550 for 100 shares of American Distilling Co. stock on Thursday, Sept. 30. If he had happened to sell out at 11:45 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 27, he would have made a gross profit of $4,150. Even if he held on-which is much more likely-he would have ended the week with a paper profit of $3,725, almost half of it chalked up during last week's five and a half days of trading. Despite this dizzy boom, he might well think his shares were not overvalued...
...second prize of $700 went to 40-year-old Robert Gwathmey, art teacher at Manhattan's Cooper Union, for a postery agricultural study called Hoeing. Third prize of $500 went to 28-year-old John Rogers Cox for White Cloud, a stylized, theatrically lighted farm scene under a lone, spectacular cumulus vapor...