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...small gestures that reveal Ross's passion for her craft. At a recent trunk show, the designer took pains to help a curious shopper. The woman left with several pieces???and Ross's e-mail address. Several days later, when she received a message of gratitude from the customer, Ross was genuinely moved: ?I want to see people get pleasure out of the jewelry. It's more than money...
...magazines like FORTUNE and LIFE. His letters to Stieglitz were full of scorn for his commercial patrons. But in the meantime he was earning, among other colleagues, a reputation as the least socially committed of serious American photographers. As Henri Cartier-Bresson once remarked, "The world is falling to pieces???and Weston and Adams are doing pictures of rocks!" Adams refused to deal with the standard subjects of post-Depression America, the breadlines, Okies, rallies and bums. When he photographed a Japanese American internment camp in California in 1943-44, the results showed not a hint of outrage...
...most powerful wallop ever dealt by man?that of smashing some atoms into 22 to 30 pieces???was achieved by: 1. The Hanford plant in Washington...
...gangs of Yugoslav and Albanian peasants, are narrow ruts where, Dr. Vlada Petovich of the National Museum believes, the chariots of Alexander the Great and Philip of Macedon passed. In the cellar of a synagogue is a curious cistern at the bottom of which the diggers found seven gold pieces???cast there, in Dr. Petovich's opinion, by a scared Jew fleeing from the earthquake that destroyed the city...