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...Chickley Alp in Charlemont, a thriving school is in progress conducted by Countess Anna Hartmann of Hartenau who has recently come here from Austria. Miss Hartman has been a movie actress as well as a championship skiier. She made films in Austria, Germany, France and Italy before coming to this country last May. New Yorkers studied with her during the summer at the dry ski school run by the American Womans Association...
...other thoroughbreds had accomplished during 130 years of British horse racing. At stud, Bahram's blood lines were important to British racing. But last month, when the Nazis confiscated the French branch of the Aga Khan's fabulous stable, the Indian potentate, stranded on a Swiss Alp (TIME, Aug. 19), decided to sell his priceless Bahram-for a sum close to a quarter of a million dollars...
...through Paris snored these swift and lethal little craft. Turning out of the Seine into the Yonne just below Montereau it is possible to navigate that stream to the Armanc,on, continue by canal south to Dijon, thence by another canal into the Saone, which flows into the broad, Alp-born Rhone, which enters the Mediterranean just west of Marseille, thus cutting off a long, rough trip around Spain. From photographs taken from a bridge in Paris, the British sea wasps for Rumania looked like 70-ft. Vospers, each mounting two 21-inch torpedo tubes, powered with three...
Whistler signed his paintings with a butterfly, usually about two inches across. Swiss-born Nat Karson uses an alp. At 29, Painter Karson is black-haired, intense, an art director of Manhattan's famed Radio City Music Hall. Last week a Karson mural was unveiled in the lobby of Manhattan's Rialto, the Music Hall of its day (1916), but for the last four years a Manhattan movie house specializing in horror pictures. (Harvardman Arthur L. Mayer, the Rialto's owner, calls himself "The Merchant of Menace...
...Karson splashed the Rialto's lobby with Frankenstein, Zombis, King Kong, a skeleton dangling from a scaffold, a ghoul sucking a lollipop. On his signature alp (about a foot high), by way of contrast, he put Laurel & Hardy. All are done with skilled caricature, are no screwier than the career of the young fellow who painted them. Son of a former Russian court painter, he came to the U. S. when he was four. At twelve he joined a Chicago little theatre as assistant to its art director...