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...like to tar and feather Dior, and run him out of town. Why did he have to build me up just to let me down? I can hang my head, and drop my bra and appear a flattened frump, But Christian, tell me dear, how do I batten down the rump...
...Force Association convention in Omaha last week. For security reasons, he refused to identify the new record-breaking plane, the pilot or the exact altitude reached. Best guesstimates: altitude, 90,000 ft. (17 miles) above sea level, probably reached by Bell's XiA rocket aircraft. An added feather in the Air Force's cap: a B-47 jet bomber, refueled in flight, has set a new jet endurance record, staying aloft for 35 hours, traveling 17,000 miles nonstop...
Results Are Something. Albright's brushes are the smallest obtainable. For really fine work he uses one lateral spine of one chicken feather, tied to a handle for him by a man who specializes in tying fishermen's flies. His first step, which may take years is to cover the canvas with a very detailed charcoal drawing. After fixing the charcoal with a spray, he begins applying thin glazes of oil color, sometimes spending weeks on a square inch. When I get sick to death of painting glass " he says "I paint wood for a while. Then when...
...American primitives in your May 10 issue take me back 60 years to my friendship with Jack Mann, an artist who, I felt, was a genius. On exhibition in a village store was Jack's painting of a game bird, a hunting-trophy still life with every barred feather in place, as realistic and photographic as anything modern processes have shown since. Yet Jack could whip up a portrait in an hour or two for anyone who cared to pose in his paint shop amid pails of whitewash and hand-mixed house paints. At one period he traveled over...
According to Watson, "Dave was only too glad to withdraw his protest when he understood that no special favoritism had been shown to the Green Feather group...