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Last stop, but a favorite of many, was Stanley Landsman's Infinity Chamber, in which 6,000 tiny lights on the black, mirrored walls were reflected to create what seemed like an infinity of mirrors. The illusion of airy weightless ness thus engendered permitted viewers, in the words of the show's organizer, Ralph T. Coe, to "leap straight into the fourth dimension, experiencing what the astronauts have described when they walk in space." Still better, as far as the frazzled gallerygoers were concerned, everyone could leap straight out of the fourth dimension without having to worry about...
...Samuel Weissman, 46, supervisor of indexers on the Times Index, a reference aid to its files. He denied present Communist Party membership. ¶ Matilda Landsman, 37, now a Linotype operator, who had worked as a stenographer in the news and Sunday departments and as secretary to Joseph Barnes, onetime editor of the defunct New York Star...
...week, 63 days out of the Canaries, he spotted a light flashing ahead. Daylight revealed a brown fishing beach between two weathered, grey cliffs. Bombard had reached Stroud's Bay in the British West Indian island of Barbados. Within a few hours, he sat down to a hearty landsman's meal of grapefruit, bacon & eggs, bread, a pot of jam, coffee...
...turn of the century, the old-style whalers were foundering to their finish, to be replaced by modern floating whale-oil factories. Harry became a landsman, and took up pharmacy. He went back to the sea in two World Wars, served as skipper of troop ships and cargo ships. "But who can find romance," he sneers, "in an engine thump?"-especially while...
...describes himself as "a weedy young man of slightly effeminate aspect"-neglecting to add that his war record won him the British Distinguished Service Order and Military Cross, the French Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre. With the same misleading modesty he insists that he is merely a "landsman"-but his new book is all about a voyage he made in his 31-ton ketch Truant two years ago, from England to Greece, via the English Channel, the rivers and canals of France, and the Mediterranean Sea. His crew consisted of wife Isabel, whom Millar describes...