Word: pencilling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congressman Fish helped to organize a Negro regiment (the crack 15th Infantry, now the 369111 Coast Artillery) during World War I, served in it as a captain, and won the Croix de guerre. As a procurement officer in the Specialist Reserve, Colonel Fish will have more use for a pencil than for a gun, will presumably return to his loud duty in the U.S. House of Representatives after his Army month is over. While he is an active officer, he will have to be silent on public issues...
Composer Walton's score arrived in Chicago late, only three weeks before it was to be played; it posed a problem for Chicago's Conductor Frederick Stock. Musicians' holographs are hen-tracky at best; this one was in pencil, was almost undecipherable. Conductor Stock and his assistant Hans Lange set to work to ink in the 500,000 notations, were soon floundering. They called in seven orchestra players, finally got the job done in ten days. At the first rehearsal, said Conductor Stock, the overture "sounded like Halifax." But its first playing proved it something else...
...secretary, one of his three confidential secretaries-Frau Wolf, Frau Schroeder or Frau Daranowsky-and began to dictate. When the draft was brought to him, typed on special typewriters with huge letters designed to save his eyes, he slashed it making revisions in green, blue and red pencil...
...with drawings and some 15,000 sentences showing how words are used, the dictionary is simple, easy to use. Handiest short cut: an inverted e (a), called the schwa (from Hebrew), takes the place of eight symbols customarily used to represent the same sound-the unaccented vowel in about, pencil, lemon, etc. On his definition of hearing Dr. Thorndike wasted no big words: "Sense by which sound is perceived. The old man's hearing is poor...
Edward Greenberg's surrealist montage, entitled "MozART is a five pointed STAR (arzica)" is perhaps the most strikingly radical work shown, but it is quite balanced by James Bishop's meticulous, if not too characterful, pencil portraits. The range between is thoroughly covered, and one can pick out Kenneth Henry's impressionistic "Study of a Model", Barbara O'Neill's powerful use of facial planes, taken from Cezanne, and J. W. Lample's "Still Life" very much a la Matisse...