Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newsman, Villa-Lobos said: "I, who have never seen your city of New York, but who adore it, will set down its melody expressly for you." Seizing a photograph of Manhattan's lower sky line, the composer exclaimed: "The feeling that this photo gives me is distinctly minor, though I know that the interior of the city is distinctly major. I would base this on C Minor." So. making a quick tracing of the sky line, he did. Puffing on a big 7?cigar, he sketched out the melody twice, sang it froggily, exclaimed at its Oriental character, finished...
...over 2 sq. ft.) heavy (7 Ib. 6 oz.), costly ($10) style guide. Designed to replace the old color chart, its 236 color plates showed houses, living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, etc. in coats of many colors. Each oversize plate was an extraordinarily clear and detailed color photograph of an actual paint job. With housewives able to see how colors look on wall and woodwork, Sherwin-Williams hoped to touch off a housepainting renaissance...
...Papa Shakespeare read it at an Anglo-American Community Chest luncheon Representative Charles Albert Plumley of Vermont told the House of Representatives that he was "astounded" when he saw a picture in LIFE of Admiral James Otto Richardson, Commander in Chief of the U. S. Fleet, with an autographed photograph of King George VI at his elbow. It was "grossly indiscreet," said Mr. Plumley; thereupon read from Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution, which says: ". . . No person holding any office of profit or trust . . . shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title...
...came out of it with nervous exhaustion and a book of four long short stories called The Trouble I've Seen. It was acclaimed by Mrs. Roosevelt, by then (1936) well established as a leading U. S. book salesman; and with Author Gellhorn's photograph and back ground, any publisher's publicity writer could do the rest. Martha...
...John Dillingers, Pretty Boy Floyds, broke the kidnapping business of half a dozen years ago and blasted Public Enemies No. 1 as fast as they arose, returned to his spacious office at FBI headquarters. There a huge model of a cop's nightstick leans against the wall, a photograph of his mother, who died two years ago, rests on the desk and on a radio stands a framed sentiment, "The Penalty of Leadership," which says: "In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. . . . When...