Word: handly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...granddaddy of modem chic. His personal blend of bright, carelessly smeared colors with shorthand draftsmanship is imitated in chichi perfume ads and fashion magazines month after month. Last week gallery-goers in Paris and Manhattan could see the real thing: paintings from Dufy's palsied but still brilliant hand and (in Paris) tapestries woven from his designs. The tapestries, reported Paris' Combat, were "a triumphal success . . . pure...
...hillside, the blue of the Mediterranean, the delicate lilt of a racing horse, the crisp lines of the Eiffel Tower, the smoke of a train or the plump pinkness of a nude are all equally his dish. Crippled with arthritis, he sometimes has to strap his brush to his hand but (like Renoir, who was also arthritic) he permits only pleasure and good taste to appear in his work...
...expiate this sense of sin Oppenheimer threw himself into the campaign for international atomic regulation. He was appointed to a seven-man board (chairman: David Lilienthal) to suggest U.S. policy on the future of atomic energy. Chalk in hand, Oppie lectured to the nonscientific members for ten days on atomic energy, patiently repeating the lesson whenever some member got lost. Oppenheimer was responsible for much of the writing, and many of the ideas, in the resulting 34,000-word Acheson-Lilienthal Report (TIME, April 8, 1946), which called for an international atomic development authority. Says Lilienthal: "Robert is the only...
Wrapped up in the persons of Max von Laue and Hideki Yukawa, some of the best German and Japanese physical ideas were on hand at the Institute last week. The two were the first German and Japanese physicists to visit the U.S. as free agents since the war's end. (Several years ago the Institute invited two Russian mathematicians, but one regretfully declined and the other neglected to R.S.V.P...
Among the designers of the Colmol was Sunnyhill's 37-year-old President Clifford H. Snyder, who started in business with a $75 second-hand truck. He now runs a company that grosses $25 million a year. Along with Co-Inventors Arnold E. Lamm, Sunnyhill's executive vice president, and V. J. McCarthy, a coal man of Youngstown, Ohio, he built a prototype of the machine around an old army tank, worked out the bugs in a company warehouse, that was guarded day & night...