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...like Fritz Winter, still haunted by Klee and Kandinsky. Paint surfaces varied all the way from Holland's Karel Appel, who trowels on paint like a pastry cook slathering on frosting, to the latest French vogue for tachism (staining), where thin paint trickles down the canvas like spilled ink...
...this brief period is shown by Cranach's son and pupil, Lucas Cranach the Younger. Starting with a piece of paper tinted slightly pink, the young Cranach sketched the head and shoulders of the young Princess Elizabeth of Saxony (see color page) with quick brush strokes of brown ink, then tinted the face and hair with oil paint. The result of a few hours' work is a freshly seen and unforgettable image of a young girl-demure, a trifle petulant and uncertainly trembling on the threshold of womanhood...
Steeper tuition and a record high endowment couldn't save Yale from dipping into red ink. Tuition went up to $1,800 a year, and the endowment reached over $150 million in June, but operating expenses of over $22 million upset the budget...
FLYING TIGER LINE, back in the black after 18 months of red ink (net income for fiscal 1955: $400,188), will order ten Lockheed Super Constellations (capacity: 18 tons of freight) for its runs across the U.S. and overseas. Order is the biggest ever placed for a nonmilitary cargo fleet...
...nine operators, can handle all the bookkeeping for 50,000 checking accounts, takes the place of 50 workers. Operators merely feed in checks and deposit slips, punch dollar amounts on ERMA's keyboard. The checks and slips have customers' account numbers coded on them in magnetized ink; by reading these, ERMA keeps track of withdrawals and deposits, figures out and prints monthly statements at 600 lines a minute, absorbs stop-payment orders, watches for overdrawing of accounts and bounces checks, stamping the reason on a separate tape. ERMA was developed by the Stanford Research Institute, and the bank...