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Among the things Leonardo had "firs in his mind and then in his hands" were anatomy (he dissected over 30 corpses); hydraulics (he planned a canal project on the Arno); horses (he wrote an essay on their proportions); airplanes (he made small models which flew); cartography (he made bird's-eye-view military maps for the Tyrant Cesare Borgia); weapons (he invented tanks, portable bridges, one-man submarines, super-catapults); landscape (he wrote the first treatise on landscape painting); botany, geology, sculpture, and architecture...
Hitler tolerated no such experimental painting, sculpture or architecture. The Nazi-approved paintings were technically excellent, detailed, naturalistic studies like Stepp Hilz's tired pin-up girl Vanity. Hitler's favorite sculptor, Arno Breker, had ground out dozens of gladiators whose muscles, wrote Kirstein,. "seem pushed to explosion, the brows scowl in furrows with sincere paranoiac delusion. But they are not impressive...
From then on, Anita Counihan was to live almost exclusively among celebrities. Almost any night she might be found surrounded by one or all of her Stork Club gang: talking over his experiences in Spain with Ernest Hemingway or their experiences anywhere with Westbrook Pegler, Peter Arno, Damon Runyon, Steve Hannegan, John O'Hara; dancing at El Morocco with Dan Topping and Shipwreck Kelly; dashing out to the country to help Deems Taylor compose a new operetta. Between times there were play or ballet or opera openings with the William Rhinelander Stewarts, the Orson Munns, Prince Serge Obolensky...
This cheerful hint to the U.S. radio industry was offered last week as a serious opinion by a man entitled to have one-Arno Huth, encyclopedic international radio investigator of Switzerland's Geneva Research Center (TIME...
North of the Arno, the U.S. Fifth and British Eighth Armies made inroads at both ends of the Gothic Line. Torrential rains and stubborn Nazi rear guards kept them from spectacular results, but Field Marshal Albert Kesselring was making his last stand, which would end when the British could break through Rimini into the plain of the Po. Already he had pulled back the tough Nazis of the ist Parachute Division who had taken a beating before Rimini, and replaced them with Turkoman infantry of the 162nd Division...