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...over. San Antonio's Chamber of Commerce sent Popejoy, for forwarding to Bagdad, an absolutely original Bowie knife (it said so right on the blade, which was "made in Germany"). At week's end, Author Thorp himself came to the rescue, ordered a skilled cutlery man to hone out a genuine imitation for His Majesty...
Died. Evie Hone, 62, famed Irish-born stained-glass artist, whose dazzling, angularly primitive windows glitter in some 20 churches all over the British Isles (among the most widely praised: her Crucifixion window in Eton's restored 15th-century chapel-TIME, June 30, 1952); of a heart attack; in Dublin...
...Ford Motor Co. plant in Cleveland, where rough engine-block castings are fed into one bank of 26 linked machines which hone, broach, drill and prepare the blocks for assembly, all automatically. Then the machines feed the blocks out the other end on conveyor belts, where still other machines and workers install pistons and carburetors. Formerly 117 machinists needed 4^ hours to finish an engine block; now with 41 men, the machines do the work in less than three hours...
...Silly. The maker of Eton's new window was no Eastern craftsman, but a frail, schoolmarmish Dublin spinster named Evie Hone, who, at 58, is considered one of the top stained-glass artists of her time. Evie started out as a painter of fair-to-middling abstractions, but quit when she decided "it was leading nowhere." One day she visited a Dublin stained-glass works and asked if she could do a window. "They told her not to be silly. Evie Hone stamped angrily home, did one on her own for a rural church, and has been...
...Final O.K. The rest of the time, Evie Hone works intently in her bare-floored, glass-littered studio, sketching out her windows, painting the glass with her own color formulas, finally supervising the glazier who leads in the thousands of pieces. Her Eton window was so big (40,000 pieces) that she never saw it together until workmen set it in the grey-ribbed chapel. For the best part of a fortnight, Evie sat in the chapel, stared fixedly at her window, considered and rejected a change or two. Finally, she pronounced...