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...book shows off her direct, robust sincerity. A product of her childhood, she tells a story of much violence, dismisses in a sentence a circus fire in which "a sailor and nine Boy Scouts were burned alive." Her paintings have the quality her childhood instructors tried in vain to cure her of-a heavy hand. Her drawing is strong. The point of her pictures is always heartily obvious. Now at 59, she is a highly respectable figure in the British art world with her personal trademarks of a sombrero and velvet jacket, her hair in two buns over the ears...
Jumping into their cars, myriads of Dionne fans streaked for Callander, Ontario, last week, entered it beneath a triumphal arch, read strange signs, nosed around in vain for a peek at Joseph Robert Telesphore Dionne...
...months ago Director Edmund Heller of San Francisco's Fleishhacker Zoo decided to try breeding his four cow elephants, began looking for a mate. He wrote to famed Animal Collector Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck, who had supplied three of the cows, and both searched in vain until the Al G. Barnes Circus announced that it would be glad to give San Francisco a bull which had be come a nuisance because of his uncertain temper. He was a 6-ton, 9-ft. high, 25-year-old beast called "Charley Ed," valued at $5,000 minus...
Announcing that their new edition would list the Dionne Quintuplets, the publishers of Encyclopaedia Britannica breathlessly declared: "You may look in vain in the great 24 volumes for your Shirley Temples, but the even tenderer years of the five phenomenal children have achieved a memorial that took all of Methuselah's 900 years and all of Solomon's 500 wives to get for those two ancient worthies. Never before in the 168 years of Britannica history has a living child been given space in its pages...
...turned about, met a Belgian barge on the high seas, unloaded TNT and incendiary bombs and then, with only a few innocent planes and machine guns, once more sailed up the Thames and put in at East London's Silvertown. Once more Captain Allen pleaded his case in vain before London port authorities, left for Spain with a cargo of sugar...