Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Institute opened the first class in industrial camouflage in the U. S. The free course attracted some 40 students: artists, sculptors, interior decorators, advertising designers, photographers, students of architecture and engineering. Lecturer: the Institute's director, husky, 30-year-old Keith Martin, onetime Harvard crewman and portrait painter. Purpose of the course: to explore ways & means of protecting vital industries, plants, stores from attack...
...deal with: not the least of them Sculptor Epstein himself. For 30 years this pudgy, bumptious, Manhattan-born sculptor has kept London's salons mouth-frothing. At the same time, a respectable squad of critics has admitted that he is one of the world's foremost portrait sculptors...
...greatest man of Felix's acquaintance was the late Venizelos, the leading figure in Greek post-war politics. Felix met him in 1923 in a modest New York hotel; and ever since a large, signed portrait of the statesman has filled out the back wall of his sanctum. "A simple man," Felix says of his idol, "but a great brain. Too great for the Greece...
Last week Popeye in the flesh (of Actor Harry Foster Welch) stalked into the Washington office of Admiral Harold Raynsford Stark, Chief of Naval Operations to the OPNAV he presented a belligerent self-portrait, to be used as official insignia for a new squadron of Navy bombers. Said the Admiral pridefully: "You have always been an inspiration to men in the Navy...
...dedication will be written by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes of the U. S. Supreme Court, and Justice Owen Roberts will contribute a life of Holmes. A complete candid camera biography of the late justice will be published, together with a full color reproduction of his portrait...