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Since then 46-year-old Miss Hepworth, wife of topflight Painter Ben Nicholson (TIME, Dec. 13) and mother of a 20-year-old son and 15-year-old triplets (two girls and a boy), has returned to the operating theater many times. In mask and gown she stood quietly observant behind doctors and nurses, pressing forward when one of her surgeon friends offered her a closer look. Back in her peaceful studio in St. Ives, Cornwall, she transferred her sharp-eyed observations to canvas...
...under her jester's mask of giggles, Edie is a changed girl. In that instant of discovery she drops her girlhood like an old pinafore and turns like a flash into a Shavian woman in love-absorbed, intense, sole-heartedly set on the capture of her own beloved, Charley Raunce...
...between his desire to make hay while the sun shines in neutral Eire and his realization that his manly pride depends on his returning to embattled Britain. Similarly, he is the sort of a man who loves to hide his capacity for love and loyalty under a leering, winking mask of sexy chatter and innuendo ("Let me tell you," he assured young Albert, referring to the departed French governess, "there was many an occasion I went up to Mam-selle's boudoir to give her a long bong jour . . ."). Charley alone is enough to show why Novelist Elizabeth Bowen...
Babyface. In Nashville, FBI agents traced a holdup to Gangster Earl Bircham after they had learned that the thieves wore Bircham's usual disguise: a mask made from waterproof baby pants...
...paintings, drawings and prints, gathered together by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, showed Klee at his wittiest, his most charming, and most terrifying. Landscape with Accents and Little Dune Picture had the skilled naivete of antique Chinese drawings, while Lady Demon, Country Dwarf and Mask of Fear were like small windows into a skeleton-filled closet. Exercises, a few squiggly lines portraying an amazed dog watching three uncomfortably contorted human beings, was as sharp and prodding as a Thurber vignette...