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...Jersey, the Princeton poll predicted a landslide for Democratic Senatorial Candidate Howell, who lost to Republican Case. Palmer Hoyt's Denver Post predicted in its poll that Democratic Senatorial Candidate Carroll would win, but he was beaten by Republican Allott. Said the New York Daily Mirror: "The polls were all wrong, including the one published in the Mirror...
...eyebrows were light brown and delicate, her mouth pale pink, generously curved, perfectly and definitely cut like the mouth on a Roman statue. Whatever her eyes had seen before the first blow struck, they were closed now and could mirror nothing. Her face was not distorted at all; it was in remarkable repose considering how she died. But the wounds on her forehead and cheeks were too numerous and too gaudy, like the wounds of St. Sebastian in the cheap plaster statues seen in the churches of little Italian towns. Marilyn's slayer was an extravagant slayer, wasteful...
...painting, he decided, is above all a painting and not a picture. Whatever it represents is secondary; the lines and colors on the canvas are what matter. So in stead of holding a mirror up to nature, he decided to make free with her. That set tled, he spread his former paintings on the floor and regarded them as from a great distance. They showed that he had studied nature long and hard. Also, he "found something that was always the same and which at first glance I thought to be monotonous repetition. It was the mark of my personality...
...brown suede shoe. When Desmond is through, Brubeck picks up the last idea and toys with it. He ripples along for a while in running melodic notes, builds up a sweet and lyrical strain, noodles it into a lowdown mood, adds a contrapuntal voice, suddenly lashes into a dissonant mirror-inversion, then subsides into a completely disconnected rhythm that momentarily garbles the beat. The listeners lose all contact with the original tune, but they can dimly perceive other things: a favorite forgotten song, a hymn, a twinge of sadness or an insolent snicker...
...Piece of the Kid. New York City's Daily Mirror Columnist Dan Parker had a deceptively complicated explanation. Saxton had been a promising amateur boxer, Parker remembered, but as a professional he had earned a shot at the title by knocking over a series of stumblebums. Now he was managed by Blinky Palermo, a Philadelphia hoodlum unable to get a license in New York. To make matters worse, Blinky was friendly with Frank Carbo, the underworld boss of boxing. And Carbo owned a piece of Kid Gavilan...