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Warm Embrace. The only topnotch painter shown at peak performance was Buffalo's Charles Burchfield, who had somehow managed to slip a watercolor into an exhibition of oils. His Dark Ravine was menacing as an abyss by Fuseli, but richer, and lacking all pretension...
Thin, sad Burglar René Girier was a slippery one, no doubt about it. Because of his attenuated form they called him René the Stick, and truly it sometimes seemed as though René could slip through holes that would stop a toothpick. In 1942 the Vichy police had picked him up for robbing a farm, and René had skipped across the border into occupied France. The Germans picked him up there and sent him to a labor camp in Berlin. Two weeks later he had escaped again and was back in Paris...
...Cadets will clinch the title, if they win or tie. They now have four wins and one tie. But if Navy wins, Army will slip to third place while Cornell and the Middies tie for the crown...
...Point Four program (which provides technical aid to underdeveloped countries). At his press conference, Truman said Rockefeller had agreed to be managing director of the Point Four program, but the later White House official announcement indicated nothing of the sort. Washington insiders thought that it was probably a slip of presidential timing, not tongue, believed that Rockefeller would eventually be eased into the top job, now being held by Capus M. Waynick, who is on leave from his post as Ambassador to Nicaragua...
...Colombia. Still trying to eliminate middlemen, they set up their own Atlantic Commission Co. to buy the stores' produce. They started their own bakeries, candy and pastry shops to turn out everything from a $1 birthday cake to a $500 frosted reproduction of the Staten Island Ferry slip. They started new "combination" stores handling meats as well as groceries...