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...believed that his contemporaries never painted what they saw-only what professors had bullied them into believing they saw. In Whistler's magical eyes, all natural objects appeared to be misty, intangible "arrangements," "harmonies" and "symphonies" constructed of overlapping tones of light & shade-which may be why he crept up on an artist absorbed in painting a stone-for-stone facsimile of St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice and chalked on his back in large letters: "l AM TOTALLY BLIND...
...rose 6% at a time when most corporate nets were falling. Finally, Price has launched Westinghouse on such shirt-splitting expansion that within two years it will be twice as big as when he took command. G.E. has been growing even faster in new plants, but Price has crept up in sales. In 1951, Westinghouse sales were 46% of G.E.'s. Last year Westinghouse sales crept up to 57% of G.E.'s. Says Price: "It wasn't even a race before World War II. Now it's a good race-a very exciting, stimulating experience...
...gale whipped the trees along Tel Aviv's Rothschild Boulevard and tore at the policeman on guard before the Soviet legation to Israel. While he patrolled the front, someone neatly clipped a hole in a wire fence at the rear, crept through and placed a bomb-six pounds of high explosives in a thin metal container-against a wall of the somber grey stone legation. The bomb went off with a crash that shook Tel Aviv and sent diplomatic shock tremors across the world...
When the clock hands crept toward 9, men bared their heads, and the crowd broke into Abide with Me and the 23rd Psalm. As shop shutters rumbled open and milk bottles clinked in the streets of London, Derek Bentley went to the gallows. Within minutes the prison gates opened with a clang, and a warder emerged with the traditional black-framed notice board: "The judgment of death was this day executed ..." The crowd surged forward with an angry roar; someone smashed the notice board. After half an hour's scuffling, the police-using only their fists-were able...
Fishmongers Cleve and Moore both announced themselves astounded, and then set desperately to work to get the fish to the Queen before it spoiled. Moore waited in agony while an overdue train from Grimsby crept toward him through the fog. A crew of cold-storage experts stood by to repack the sturgeon in a new load of ice on Moore's truck. When all was set, Moore's general manager nipped off through the fog with the precious burden to London, 125 miles away. Meanwhile, in Grimsby, Fishmonger Cleve fretted for fear Moore was stealing the show...