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...years ago in Wisconsin a hard-working cartoonist named Carl Anderson sweated over an idea for a drawing he hoped to sell the Saturday Evening Post. Slowly, painfully the idea took form as a swaybacked, pot-bellied horse and two small boys. One boy was bald as a buzzard. The other boy lifted him up until his naked pate pressed against the horse's sagging belly. Asked the second boy, "Does your head feel warmer now, Henry...
...busy woman, she is a concocter of treacly yarns, a romantic who laps up travel literature (Arctic exploration, mountain climbing), a sophisticated and often rampageous wit and practical joker, an amateur actress of talent, a deadly croquet player, a dynamo of energy that can leap from typewriter to cooking pot to evening dress and back again, a wife, a mother, a chatelaine, all in one highly individual bundle...
Back in pre-War days, when lovely ladies popping out of lamb pot pies were the last word in social depravity, a notable group of young Manhattan sporting gentlemen gathered one day at the Metropolitan Club. Outside stood a jet-black coach & four which was to carry them the 206 miles to Newport, there to play polo at Oakland, Mr. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's big farm...
...obey when he wanted a drink [TIME, Nov. 12]. Señor Quezon had no qualms about what kind of food he wanted when well enough to eat. He consulted no doctor but his own instinct, and ordered his private cook to prepare for him the Spanish puchero-that pot which holds life's essentials for rich and poor alike, emblematic of the national well-being of a healthy people. A cabalistic piece of cookery, this gargantuan dish, a rustic circle of savors where each flavor suffers an elision in the interest of the whole, when cooked in Baltimore...
...Massey has in the past directed "Charles and Mary," "Napeleon Intrudes," and "The Watched Pot." Last spring he was the director of the Broadway success "The Pure in Heart," written by John Howard Lawson, also author of "Success Story." In the summer he managed the Millbrook, N. Y. Theatre. To him John Dos Passes dedicated three plays, including "The Garbage Man," and "The Moon is a Gong...