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...huge explosive shell; its twin propellers chewed through the big plane with a shriek and its projectile impact broke the big plane's back. As the P-38 ricocheted off and plummeted into the river, the shattered transport flashed with fire and broke in two in midair...
...bombs went off according to plan. According to one eyewitness, "the balloons appeared to rise to about 4,500 ft. Then they exploded in midair or fell into the water, or, blown by a sudden southeast wind, sped over the city and dropped on the besiegers. Venetians, abandoning their homes, crowded into the streets and squares to enjoy the strange spectacle . . . When a cloud of smoke appeared in the air to make an explosion, all clapped and shouted. Applause was greatest when the balloons blew over the Austrian forces and exploded, and in such cases the Venetians added cries...
Matisse divides his attention equally between model and picture, turning from one to another with the quick, concentrated attention of a fan at a tennis match. When he looks at the model his brush hovers in midair; when he turns back to the canvas it hesitates a split second, then dips and weaves as swiftly as a swallow building a nest...
...abstraction that looked like a diagram of ballet positions for a dancing telephone, by Black Mountain's Ruth Asawa, was the. exhibition's high point in originality. Another girl student-Helen Kae Carter of Iowa State-sent a successfully elaborate still life of kitchen utensils hanging in midair; it was the happily screwball kind of experiment that professionals, with livings to make, seldom get around to. Philip Ciotti of the Carnegie Institute had explored the thin world between abstraction and reality to produce his weird, orange Newspaper Office (see cut). The result was less photographic than Charles Sheeler...
...Hard Way. On Mt. Rose, Nev., Robert Hector landed only five feet short of the winner in the University of Nevada Winter Carnival ski jump, despite the loss of both his skis in midair...