Word: canvases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Good Chute. As the Crusader lost altitude and sank into the clouds, .Rankin put his life in the hands of the ingenious engineers who had sweated for years to anticipate his problem. He pulled two overhead handles to trigger a fast sequence: 1) a canvas windscreen came down over...
Last week Hoyte set out from the French village of Montmelian with seven companions (including a veterinary surgeon) and a 5,700-lb. female elephant named Jumbo, borrowed from the Turin zoo. In preparation for the trip, Jumbo was taken on long daily walks in hope that roadwork would condition...
Chicago's Findlay Galleries played host last week to the warm, simple and true pictures of the world's most distinguished woman painter, Dame Laura Knight. To a few, the pictures' heartfelt realism had that musty look of the faraway and long ago; visitors were hard put...
Dame Laura has seen plenty in her 81 years-and has put it all down with faithful brush and oil. As a teen-age orphan, Laura Knight took over her mother's art classes in Nottingham, blackening her toes so that the holes in her shoes would go unnoticed...
The Big Circus (Allied Artists) is an attempt by Producer Irwin (The Sea Around Us) Allen to shoot the rapids of the old DeMille stream. Under 120,000 sq. yds. of studio canvas (v. about 80,000 sq. ft. for a Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey big top), he presents...