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Nothing in the exhibition is quite similar in technique to two pictures by William Little field, rough drawings enforced with lithographic pencil in strong strokes, the result being clean cut and powerful drawings, admirably suited to the subject matter. Numerous other contributions complete one of the more interesting exhibitions of the year...
...gasoline motor's combustion chamber and by registering the 1 pressure changes, Lloyd Withrow and T. A. Boyd of General Motors were able to tell the American Chemical Society at Indianapolis last week exactly why motors knock. Quality of gasoline is the cause. With good fuel a pencil of flame darts from the spark plug and ignites all the charge progressively. This occurs in 1/250 sec. With knocking gasoline, the instant the spark starts ignition, the first burned fuel creates sufficient heat and pressure to ignite all the remaining fuel in one sharp blast, before the spark flame...
Rothenstein's Oxford Characters established him as a pencil-portraitist of the first rank, but though he painted nudes, landscapes, Cheapside costers, his lithographer's pencil has always been reserved for the faces of the great and near-great. For a Briton to be the subject of a Rothenstein portrait or a Beerbohm caricature is like membership in the Institut de France to a Frenchman. In 1899 he married Alice Knewstub, a beautiful young lady who played leads opposite Sir Herbert Tree...
...message concerning Malta which originally read in part, "priests have been accused of violating their sacred vows," once reached the late Lord Curzon in garbled form. For a moment his eye rested upon the words "sacred cows." Without a smile, he drew out his sharp-pointed pencil and annotated the message: "Clearly a case for a Papal bull...
City Room. At 2 a. m. a rewrite man took pencil and copy-paper into a telephone booth. The subdued hubbub that had filled the room all night died away to silence. Everyone crowded toward the city desk: writers, artists, "legmen" (seldom seen in the office), compositors and pressmen clustered ten deep about the chair of Benjamin Franklin, night city editor. They stood in silence, waiting and wondering with heavy hearts-jobs or no jobs? World or no World...