Word: modeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...detention home, were charged with a murder. Kahn turned King's evidence, was freed, disappeared after pinning the murder on Fulker. Michael Fulker was found mentally unbalanced, was finally locked up in the mental wing of Bordeaux Jail. There for 20 years he was a model inmate, worked as a guard's helper. Only once did he get a brief glimpse of Montreal, when a friendly guard let him peep through a telescope...
...conservative jury of museum directors gave $1,000 top honors to long-faced, Canadian-born Philip Guston, now an art instructor at St. Louis' Washington University. His Sentimental Moment is a sentimental study of a plump-armed, dreamy girl for which he used no model. "I simply had it in my mind and transferred it to canvas." Guston, who is 33, was a factory worker and a truck driver until WPA came along and gave him a full-time chance to work at art. Of his Sentimental Moment, the New York Times's ponderously judicious Edward Alden Jewell...
...receptionists report that you're interested in postwar housing ("We were swamped with inquiries about the Model Home display. Quite a few visitors came back with friends . . .")-in war trophies ("People came in especially to see the Samurai swords and Nazi banners . . .'')-in museums and picture galleries ("We're constantly being asked about special art exhibits around town-and many people have wanted to buy one or another of the Floyd and Gladys Rockmore Davis paintings we're showing currently here in the Center...
What Next? On the day Piper Cub airplanes went on display in Manhattan's John Wanamaker department store, four were sold to private flyers. The prices: from $995 for a single-seater to $2,905 for a three-place model. Ten hours of flying instructions were thrown...
...literary weekly, Henley burst into the inner circle of the intellectual world with a bull-like roar and the sound of breaking china. Bearded, massive, gaunt, propelling himself vigorously on heavy crutches like a "maimed Berserk," Henley made a spectacular impression. Young Robert Louis Stevenson instantly selected him as model for the one-legged pirate Long John Silver in Treasure Island...