Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passed by Congressmen May 14, 1942, over anguished opposition (cried a Representative: "Think of the humiliation! What has become of the manhood of America?"). Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby, a Houston publisher, was sworn in as WAAC director. Notes the book: "Her wide-brimmed hat proved unreasonably difficult to photograph...
...themselves "The General Assembly of Democratic Revolutionary Forces of the Nation," met at Saigon city hall, obviously with Diem's tacit approval. They denounced Bao Dai-"a puppet created by the French colonials . . . leading a dissolute life far from his people." They declared him "deposed," and tore his photograph from the wall and trampled on it. Claiming to speak for 18 nationalist parties, they urged Diem to repress the rebel sects and get rid of the 90,000-man French expeditionary force...
This alone could be the caption for the pictures. As a deep contrast, Mr. Strock's photograph of Central Park, void of lights and people, appears ethereal and peaceful...
...Archbishop of Canterbury is departing for East Africa with the lady pictured as his "wife" [April 4], this is news! Especially, it must have come as quite a shock to the real Mrs. Fisher, for I believe the charming lady in your photograph is Miss M. C. Forman. Miss Forman is the warden of Lambeth Palace-the London headquarters of His Crace, the Archbishop...
...donated it to a Jesuit seminary in Canterbury, England. In 1950 the painting turned up again, heavily repainted, and was offered for sale first to the Louvre, which turned it down, then to a Paris art dealer. Last year Chicago Art Institute Director Daniel Catton Rich saw a photograph of the disputed masterpiece. He cabled a colleague to check the original, and the painting was finally authenticated by experts in Barcelona and Madrid. Last week The Crucifixion hung in the Chicago Institute's Spanish Gallery with the institute's other two Zurbarans. Said Director Rich with understandable satisfaction...