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...dean of U.S. portraitists is Boston's Charles Hopkinson. But for all his fame and his 79 years, Hopkinson has never painted a portrait that holds a mirror up to nature. Even if that were possible, he argues, it would not be enough-"a good portrait exists in a separate world, it is not a mirror, and the artist who paints merely to hit off a likeness or, what's worse to please his sitter, is lost...
...survey published this week, the Ladies' Home Journal reports that the average U.S. citizen-perhaps no more nearsighted than any human being as he gazes in the mirror-feels that, spiritually, he is doing fine...
...what's that?" Second prize (an egg) was won by Julian Everett of Manhattan for a cork-calved, swivel-eared robot whose right hand was a "clam digger for getting," his left a "built-in money box for keeping." Among the items of special equipment: an inner-view mirror (to keep an eye on his ulcers...
...automobile interiors, caught between the arm rest and window handle, one balmy summer day. The head, which I fortunately salvaged, I still carry around in my pocket. It was removed at the request of the driver, who could not see out of the rear window through the rear-view mirror. I am writing this left-handed from the hip. W. S. SHERMAN Chicago...
...Mirror also pulled a neat trick in the matter of price. A recent price rise to 7? has cut street sales of other papers. The Mirror outmaneuvered rival papers by sneaking into the field (with a modest 100,000 circulation guarantee) at a nickel...