Word: draftsman
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...trip to Spain, and he is brought up under the gimlet eye and Puritan maxims of a crabby maiden aunt. In Paris, he holes up in a studio and paints, but he gets panned by the critics. Wyatt is soon back in a Greenwich Village flat with a draftsman's job and a possessive wife just out of analysis. He sheds his wife, and sells himself into esthetic and moral bondage forging "undiscovered" Flemish masterpieces for a millionaire dealer in expensive fakes. This work drives him to the fringes of sanity and murder. Fleeing the U.S., he makes...
Fragonard, some 30 years younger than Boucher, drifted with the increasing vulgarity of his time, trying hard to please the flamboyant Madame du Barry. Often he peddled his frumptious nudes to Paris' burgeoning demimonde. Fragonard also was a master draftsman with an inspired poetic vision, as proved by his sanguines (red crayon sketches) of Tivoli's Renaissance palace, Villa d'Este, surrounded by antique ruins...
...Vice President of the United States was sued last week for assault and false imprisonment. James Heavey, 29, a San Francisco Naval Shipyard draftsman, charged that Richard Nixon had caused him to be forcibly detained at a political meeting in San Mateo last October. Everyone agreed that Heavey had shouted, "Tell us a dog story, Dick," in the midst of a televised speech, and that the Vice President had ignored the heckling until after the broadcast. Then, according to one version of the story, Secret Service men had held Heavey on Nixon's orders, while the Vice President publicly...
...Draftsman's Apprentice. In Birdham, England, Alan Tamplin, inventor of a 54-gallon, radio-controlled beer barrel (at the flick of a dial it rolls out of the house and across the lawn to where the operator is sitting, fills his glass, returns to the house), permitted a friend to operate the barrel, suffered a crushed toe when the barrel rolled out of control...
...Frederick Gardner, 59, was named president of Electric Bond & Share's Ebasco Services Inc., one of the world's biggest designers and builders of utility plants. Gardner began working part-time for Electric Bond as a 25?-an-hour draftsman. He became vice president in 1945, executive vice president in 1952. T. C. Wescott, 67, moves up from president to vice chairman of the board...