Word: leigh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...barns, epicene nudes, apples and bunches of flowers, avoid such complex natural spectacles as sunsets, stampedes, beautiful women, the Grand Canyon. One crusty, white-bearded old U. S. artist who has been hot on nature's heels for more than 50 years is Manhattan's William Robinson Leigh. He has tracked old Mother Nature from East Africa to the U. S. Southwest, has painted more postcardy scenery than most men see in a lifetime. So chromolithographically faithful are Painter Leigh's canvases of jungles, deserts, wild animals and horses that the American Museum of Natural History hired...
This week 74-year-old Painter Leigh gave Manhattan gallerygoers a taste of nature. His 14 paintings and assorted sketches and drawings (at the Grand Central Galleries) depicted glowing Western canyons, Indian cliff dwellings, stampeding horses, luridly lit desert dawns and sunsets. Fifty-Seventh Street's sophisticates thought they looked as corny as old-fashioned magazine covers, but had to admit that few living artists could paint a prancing steed or a frightened herd of mountain goats as realistically as William Robinson Leigh...
...price it is showing today, With Gable still out to make Vivien Leigh...
...first saw himself in bronze, the Biscuit tried to take a bite out of Sculptor Wheeler's $25,000 job. But at the unveiling ceremony next day, Seabiscuit behaved with poise befitting a guest of honor. He listened to his encomiums, whinnied with nervous embarrassment while President Leigh Battson of the Los Angeles Turf Club read a poem written by Sportswriter Grantland Rice...
From Bulgaria last week CBS Correspondent Leigh White poured out a bagful of new horror stories, gathered from eyewitness accounts of Rumania's fortnight-old Iron Guard rebellion. He told of Green Shirt ruffians ranging through the ghetto of Bucharest, firing shops and synagogues, shooting Jews and Christians who refused to join the fun, beating some senseless and setting matches to their gasoline-soaked bodies. He told of one band of Jews herded into a slaughterhouse, forced to kneel at the chopping blocks where their throats were cut in a grisly parody of kosher butchering. From...