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fined $50 for attempted theft, Allan Hayes, 69, angrily explained why he had assaulted a pay telephone with a hack saw, cold chisel and hammer: "I wanted my nickel back. I did what anyone would...
When her triplets were born in 1934, Sculptress Barbara Hepworth laid aside her hammer and chisel for a whole month. Otherwise, domestic duties have rarely kept her from her work as an artist. As a result of this dedicated cultivation of her talents, Barbara Hepworth, now 51, is one of the world's top sculptors, and last week London's Whitechapel Art Gallery was having the biggest retrospective show of her work ever held...
Many a state now has soil-conservation laws that permit authorities to "list" or "chisel" the uncared-for land and tax its owner for the expense. All over the plains last week the fight against soil erosion was going on. But such work-and particularly the job of getting grass back on thin, bad soil-would take time. Only soaking rains could guarantee an end to the blowing plumes of dust...
...public. The camera seeks them in the hate-dark faces of prisoners, on the power-cold features of officials. Here and there it stares to find a human face: the warden (impressively played by Emile Meyer) is a figure as granite-hard as his prison walls, but a chisel of harder experience seems to have gouged his face with understanding...
Comedian Skelton is cast as Ambrose, a second-chisel man in a big Manhattan jewelry store, a diamond cutter whose tragedy is that he just buffs up the big ones for somebody else to blast. The big one in question is a stupendous rock called "The Blue Goddess." and some chiselers of another sort than Ambrose are interested in her. A foundling who has searched all his life for his parents, Ambrose thinks he has found them at last. Actually, he has run into a couple of shills for an underworld magnate (George Mathews), who is planning to heist...