Word: exhibition
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Exhibit. In Bradford. England, a woman charged a Canadian soldier with biting off the end of her nose, brought the proof with her to court, preserved in a bottle...
...photograph of six exhumed corpses -U.S. airmen who had bailed out of their bomber over Germany-was telling testimony. The eleven German civilians on trial at Darmstadt for murdering the men winced at the exhibit. Grandmotherly, grey-haired Frau Margarete Witzler turned her head away...
...first prize to Hofer's The Wind, which pictured two defenseless figures huddling against a swirl ; it might well have been the ill wind faced by non-Nazi Germans. Herr Goebbels, the furious Fährer of Nazi art, who had previously let Hofer paint but not exhibit in Germany, thereupon forbade him to paint at all. But Hofer managed to keep at it- although he was twice bombed out of his Berlin home, and lost all his work. Last week's show included 18 Hofer canvases...
...Berlin show had an understandable bread & butter motive; 30,000 marks worth was quickly sold, with the artists getting 85% of the take. Appropriately, the exhibit was staged in Goebbels' former rubber-stamp art works, the Reichskultur-kammer...
...Scottish immigrant parents in 1849, worked hard on the family farm. In his spare time he built from wood and metal scraps a series of locks, clocks and other gadgets that were much admired by curious neighbors. At 22 he went to the State Fair at Madison to exhibit an "early rising machine" that dumped its victims out of bed with split-second accuracy. His next stop was the University of Wisconsin, where fellow students crowded his room to see such contraptions as his "student desk," which whirred and banged a rotation of books at 15-minute intervals under...