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...Venice's School of San Rocco. One of his biggest problems was to keep both his camera and the 166-in. -by-214 ½-inch framed painting, which had been on the wall for almost 400 years, dead still for a 45-minute time exposure. After overcoming the hazards of Venice's crowded streets and ringing church bells, both resulting in imperceptible vibrations of the building's walls, Kessel discovered another hazard that blurred his picture. The heat from the floodlights made warm air behind the painting push the canvas almost microscopically while his shutter was open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Life with LIFE | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

Attention-Getter. In Taunton, England, the town council told Druggist W. H. Adcock that he must remove the elaborate display he had erected on the second floor as a perfume advertisement because it was so beautiful that it distracted motorists and constituted a driving hazard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 1, 1955 | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

...Mystery. Actress Maureen Stapleton also stumbled on the hazard of a bad play presented over NBC's Philco Playhouse (Sun. 9:30 p.m., E.D.T.). Incident in July is the poor second best of Novelist-Playwright Calder Willingham, who adapted his own novel, End as a Man, a couple of seasons ago into an unexpected Broadway hit. Incident is about a married woman, incapable of having children, who pours her maternal affection on a 19-year-old boy, causes a painful scandal, finally realizes that she ought to adopt a child. The writing was aimless, the plot pointless, and Actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

...Lonely Sky, by William Bridgeman and Jacqueline Hazard. The poetry of flight gets an exciting new jet-age laureate as Test Pilot Bridgeman tells what it feels like to rocket through space at 1,200 miles an hour (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Jul. 4, 1955 | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

...offing, but these concerned Harvard's athletic plant, the Stadium and the proposed Indoor Athletic Building in particular. Athletic Director Bingham suggested enlarging the Stadium to a seating capacity of 80,000. Wooden stands containing room for 22,000 had been erected annually but were now termed a fire hazard and had to be removed...

Author: By Charles Steedman, | Title: 1930's First Years: Quiet Traditions and Uncivilized Eating | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

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