Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the academy architects, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, announced that modernistic plans for the chapel have been abandoned because the original building might have "distracted" public thinking about the architecture of the entire academy. Now being planned: a model "conforming to more conventional American concepts of a place of worship." It is, said the architects wryly, complete with steeple and stained-glass windows...
...reds in Renoir's portrait of Mme. Henriot (opposite) are sonorous indeed, make a rich foil for her pale flesh and paler costume. He used to say that all he asked of a model was "a skin that takes the light," but the portrait shows that Renoir could rise to and convey beauties of personality as well as those of flesh alone. His bronze study of Mme. Renoir nursing their son (right) goes beyond flesh and personality alike to celebrate an ever-recurring and ever-moving relationship...
...opposition Miami Herald, wrote a story about the financial troubles of the wife and two children of LeRoy Horne, jailed for ten years for armed robbery. Home read the Daily News story, was so touched that he decided to go straight, joined the prison church, became a model prisoner...
...every new-car buyer, had 20 takers in the first week. With each Studebaker sale Washington's Lee Butler gave out one share of Stude-baker-Packard stock, free gasoline for the first 1,000 miles. Los Angeles dealers brought in customers by offering a stripped-down model at rock-bottom price, threw in a radio for $1 extra, white sidewalls for a second $1, automatic drive for a third...
Range & Quiet. Bypass engines are hard to design, and few of them have been built. Probably the leading model is the British Rolls-Royce Conway, which has been ordered for the Vickers 1000 airliner. Critics say that it does not bypass enough air to yield full efficiency, but Rolls-Royce claims that it will give top range and safety to airplanes flying above the practical speeds of turboprops...