Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Weightlifting, according to its devotees, is the greatest hope for the little man since someone kicked and in the puny face of Charles Atlas. Dynamic tension notwithstanding, nothing can get you fit faster than a good session with the trusty barbells...
Pipes & Pawkiness. The Black Watch has fought in every British war since the time of its founding. In World War II its six battalions took part in "nearly every principal campaign" the world over -the roster of its fighting stations reads like a wartime atlas: Flanders, Somaliland, Greece, Crete, Tobruk, Alamein, Tripoli, Burma, Sicily, Italy, Normandy, the Rhine. When peace came, Field Marshal Earl Wavell (himself a Black Watch officer) gave to his former Aide-de-Camp Bernard (Beyond the Chindwin) Fergusson the job of historian to the six battalions and their Commonwealth affiliates-a "family" of widespread proportions...
...squared-off chunks derived, at least in part, from cubist painting. The figure billowed like smoke from blocky underpinnings. The arms, as if elongated by its terror, writhed upwards to hold back the sky in a futile, contorted gesture of self-preservation. The statue looked like a cross between Atlas and a frightened child, which was perhaps just what its subject required...
...tolerated by the Thlingets, excoriated by the tourists, and between teaching, instructing, exhorting and advising the village people, we read TIME from cover to cover, to our own amazement. If we should tell you that we are educating ourselves politically, that we sit down in earnest and quiet with atlas and history and follow your correspondents around the world; that our young son reads TIME as religiously as he does his Calvert lessons; that we feel we have a private periscope to search the wide horizons which stretch from this minuscule point of vantage, it makes dull reading but true...
...French Morocco. His house in the city of Rabat (pop. 160,800) had a cellar studio where he worked through the heat of the day. It served as a base for sketching trips made by horse, mule and camel across Morocco's stony plains and into the Atlas Mountains. Swathed in a burnoose, Legrand often camped with Berbers, used them as models for such prophets as Joshua and Jeremiah (see cut). Once in his travels, he says, a Berber witch whose advances he repulsed put a spell on his drawing hand, made it swell to the size...