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Working in the studio of the late Sculptor Lorado Taft at Chicago, she analyzed materials from living trees, old log cabins and bridges, refuse from sawmills and barrel factories, charcoal from old campfires, relics from Indian caves and graves, a ton of tree sections supplied by a Wisconsin paper manufacturer who had just taken a paper contract for LIFE. She patiently placed pieces hundreds of years old in sequence by their overlapping ring patterns, and reconstructed growth calendars for several types of trees...
...lines went down, communications were cut off. Half the buildings in Colima crumbled into dust. The cathedral, rebuilt after the quake that struck Colima in 1932, was destroyed again. That night Colima was lighted up by the dull glow of forest fires, touched off by the city's charcoal-burning dumps when panic-stricken workers abandoned them...
...watched, Charley Turquoise and his helper squatted in the sand, crosslegged, smoothed it carefully with a long paddle, began carefully covering it with colored pictures of angular, oblong-bodied gods and animals. Their pigment, which they lifted in handfuls from five different bowls beside them, was powdered rock and charcoal-white, blue, yellow, black and red. Trickling each handful in a fine stream between thumb and forefinger, they drew lines and wedge-shaped patches as accurately as draughtsmen, pinched off a dot or a spot of color here & there as featly as if they were salting the tail...
...Tenor Sergei Radamsky, tunbellied Author Hendrik Willem van Loon. For a portraitist with such a good address, Painter Klinghoffer is medium-priced, will do a muscled, Michelangelesque drawing for $60, a Rembrandtesque oil for $650. An expert at accurate anatomy and spitting imagery, Artist Klinghoffer has been working with charcoal, pen and pencil ever since she can remember. Says she, with a London-influenced Austrian accent: "I drew like that before I ever sore any old masters...
...than in the censored dispatches of foreign correspondents, could be read the true picture of Italy last week. Correspondents cabled that news of British victories in Egypt was withheld in Italy, that prices of necessities had almost doubled, that sometimes housewives "get impatient" waiting in queues for rations of charcoal and olive oil. But on the growing social unrest in Italy they could only quote the papers...