Word: pyrotechnicians
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...could be in fireworks. This is art. This is science. This is family. "You know," he says in monotone seriousness, and Junior is rolling his eyes before the old man completes the sentence, "it actually takes longer to become a first-rate pyrotechnician than to be a doctor...
Dali on Dali in (some) words and (many) pictures. Inevitably among those present: pre-pop Surrealist Dali, Prurient Dali, Renaissance Dali, and Dali, boy genius grown old. Also, on practically every page, Dali the pyrotechnician in paint, the most engaging, self-indulgent and talented decorator of his age. Appropriately wrapped, like candy, in gold tinfoil...
Typical small operator was big, heavy-set Amerigo Antoneili (see cut), born 53 years ago in Farafeliorumpetris, Italy, where his father, Rigoletto, is still Royal Pyrotechnician to the King of Italy. Coming to the U.S. in 1912, Antoneili began to make fireworks in Rochester, eventually employed 30 persons in the peak season, nine the year around (all were Italians trained in Italy where fireworks is an ancient, secretive father-to-son business). He grossed between $25,000 and $40,000 annually. Antonelli's crews traveled around New York fairs, where powder was often mixed on the spot, and pyrotechnicians...
...restored an age-old weapon to use after centuries of neglect. Last week a leading expert on this ancient weapon revealed that the Nazis were clumsy and amateurish incendiarists at best. Tall, dressy Colonel Joaquin Enrique Zanetti, Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University, is the No. 1 U. S. pyrotechnician. Last week he published a concise handbook of arson: Fire from the Air-the ABC of Incendiaries (Columbia University Press...
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