Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captured Youth. In Manhattan, Benjamin Goldstein, 50, a grey-haired salesman of hair dyes, recaptured his youth by restoring his hair to its original color, was then recognized and arrested by the FBI on a charge dating back...
...Quebec, where men often demand freedom to evade the fight for freedom, opposition to conscription reached strange extremes : In Sherbrooke, Gunner Lucien Rocheleau testified that Mrs. Theodore Provencher had told him to wrap a religious, picture in blue silk (color of the Virgin Mary), hang it around his neck. Then she had given him a special prayer to read on nine consecutive nights, finally some pills to make him sick and insure his discharge from the army. For these services his mother paid Mrs. Provencher $16. The Mounted Police charged...
Most literary picture was The Letter, a water color by Lucien Ribera showing a minutely realistic man's hand, whiskey glass, deck of cards, engagement ring, and a letter ending: "and so I am returning the ring. Try to understand...
...usefulness of eyes is as various as their color. A man may be unable to judge the speed of distant motion, yet be a good inspector of small parts. Most eyes have an aptitude for some special type of vision -distant or near, wide or narrow angled; or for the judgment of space, shape or motion; or for rapid change of focus. Industry stands to profit by selecting eyes for special jobs, adjust jobs to the eyes available...
Velazquez ($5.50) is a big book (10½ by 14 in.), solid (four pounds) with 155 reproductions (six in color), a definitive Velazquez catalogue and a scholarly essay on the 17th-Century Spanish master of realism by Madrid's Art Historian Enrique Lafuente...