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...prisoners of war returning from Russia were thin, unkempt, hungry, tired. Relief workers greeted them with what poor Italy could afford: a cup of minestrone, two small loaves of bread, an apple...
Caspar Milquetoast is the only character Cartoonist Webster has ever given a name to-and Caspar,* with appropriate shyness, sneaked into the strip as a space filler. The rest of Webster's bald-headed bores, thin, puzzled wives, and freckle-faced kids need no name; they are, when they hit the mark-as they often do-Everyman...
Last Service. By middle age, Leicester was no longer the slim, handsome gallant who had dazzled Elizabeth in the Tower. His face was red, his beard streaked with grey, his hair thin. And despite Elizabeth's efforts to keep him on a diet ("two ounces of flesh" a day, and "the twentieth part of a pint of wine to comfort his stomach"), sweet Robin was getting paunchy. And then, one day, the Queen discovered that he had secretly married handsome, widowed Lettice Knollys, Countess of Essex -or "that she-wolf," as the Queen preferred to call...
...Very thin and clear and strong. Triple distilled. . . . There's no name." Daisy Kenyan has been bought by 20th Century...
...BUSH - Matthew Head - Simon & Schuster ($2). On Hooper Taliaferro's military mission into the Congo he stumbles across a marvelously carved ceremonial knife, two beautiful women and an evil old man. Un fortunately, this fine, assorted bag of jungle specimens includes one moth-eaten item: a thin, conventional plot of seduction and murder that has been used inumpteen whodunits with less glamorous settings. Verdict: fair...