Word: handiworks
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...occasion for its bucolic setting and display of fruits, vegetables, paintings, canned goods, baked goods, flowers, etc. was TIME Inc.'s seventh annual Country Fair-an event that has come to mean a good deal to us here as a way of exhibiting our extracurricular handiwork to one another and having it judged. This friendly competition began the autumn after Pearl Harbor because so many of our suburban members had taken to raising Victory Gardens and wanted to compare their produce with that of coworkers. The first fair was warmly received, and the succeeding ones have been no less...
...Vatican, Pope Pius XII received 570 devout Catholic workers, who delivered to him some samples of their handiwork: a motorized bicycle and an electric toaster...
...magazine pictures showing a young woman stripping down to the buff, acquitted a news dealer of peddling obscene literature. Said Judge Struble: "The front views, as well as the other views, are of God's own children. There cannot be any obscenity in God's own handiwork." ¶ New York City celebrated its Golden Jubilee ( 50th anniversary of the consolidation of its five boroughs) with a six-hour parade down Fifth Avenue. There were 55,000 marchers, 100 bands, over a million spectators...
Sculptor William Zorach, whose thickish handiwork stands in eight leading U.S. museums, got an offer from the state of Mississippi, turned it down the same day. No, he would not carve a monument to the late Senator Theodore G. ("The Man") Bilbo; he "could not face the world" if he did-and, offhand, he wasn't able to think of any sculptor who could...
...Alexander Kipnis and Cousin Leonid, who had bought negatives of the film from the U.S. Alien Property Custodian, made a distribution deal with United Artists. Last week, under the title Kings of the Olympics, Leni's work began its first general U.S. showing. Leni would scarcely recognize her handiwork...