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...Sarah Bernhardt and Henry Clay. Another achieves part of its realism because it was done in collaboration with his seven-year-old son, Neil. Against the usual wooden background, it shows a leaky water pistol, Halloween masks, a torn piece of a newspaper photo and a child's slate. On the slate is a drawing of a witch-by Neil...
...more down-to-earth level, Matisse was a pleasant, plump and proper bundle of paradoxes. He was finicky in his dress as he was daring in art; a pleasure-lover in his leisure time and a puritan in the studio. His pink face was bearded and benevolent; his slate blue eyes coolly attentive. He would discuss art lucidly and at length with all comers, punctuating his remarks by precise gestures of his small, square hands. Matisse knew his field as well, perhaps, as one man can. He tilled it conscientiously, and enlarged it courageously. Yet he maintained that painting...
...this will pass," he said. "But Dulles feels he's got to wipe the old slate perfectly clean...
When Frederick Leavitt and Wallace Peirce opened their shop at what is now 1316 Massachusetts Avenue, they left an open tin of tobacco scraps on the counter beside the stove. Up the street, where Bob Slate's Stationery Store now stands, they operated a smaller shop under similar arrangements for freshmen. The proprietors tried different mixtures until they found one undergraduates particularly enjoyed. This was packed up in cake box tins for Leavitt and Peirce customers to take home. Later it was shipped to graduates, who passed it among their friends, establishing the brand abroad. Soon Leavitt's found itself...
...Only one slate, from a newly formed National Anti-Communist Front, will be offered, on the theory that the people are "tired of politics." Next the voter will be asked: "Do you wish President Castillo Armas to continue in office for a term to be fixed by the Constituent Assembly?" He can answer si or no, but cannot vote for anyone else...