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From Communist Manchuria last week, the U.S. received a thin piece of news: U.S. Consul General Angus Ward was still alive. The Chinese Communists who held him prisoner had permitted him to send out a request for food, clothing and reading matter...
When swords went out of fashion, Solingen's craftsmen turned their skill to the making of bayonets, cutlery, scissors, surgical instruments, straight razors, and even wafer-thin, newfangled safety razor blades...
Society swells and bohemians alike flocked to Foujita's exhibitions. Utrillo and Modigliani swept him off on their absinthe binges, though he himself never touched a drop. Matisse dropped around to ask how he made his lines so thin and firm (he does it by holding the brush vertically, in the Chinese way, and drawing from the shoulder instead of the wrist), and solemnly assured him that had he been born in Europe his name would have been Picasso. The Lucky Strike people asked Foujita for a testimonial; his response (for use in Paris newspapers): "Women like to kiss...
...Gladys left Liverpool Street carrying a bedroll, a kettle and saucepan, a suitcase of canned food, ninepence in cash and a thin packet of travelers' checks. Said she to her mother & father: "Never get me out or pay ransom for me. God is sufficient...
Something Impalpable. "Just as in autumn," cries Sir Osbert Sitwell, casting his radiant glance back over the Firbank life work, "the silver cobwebs lightly cover the trees with a thin mist of impalpable beauty, so a similar . . . intangible loveliness hung over every page, while wit ran in, round, and underneath each word...