Word: seene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fanciful version of how the first flight might be attempted without passengers is portrayed in a cartoon film being shown in all seriousness to newsreel audiences in Russia, and seen for the first time in the U.S. this week. Produced under the direction of Yurie Khlebtsevich, chairman of a Soviet technical committee working on radio and television guidance of rockets, the movie depicts the use of an unmanned baby tank, crammed with scientific instruments, for the exploration of the moon's surface. The robot tank, as shown in these pictures from the film, would be carried through space inside...
...sleek, slick Couturiere Simonetta observed a "dangerous" tendency among U.S. women to ignore fashion trends and wear what they look best in. Here on her first U.S. visit since 1955, Simonetta crossly jangled her charm bracelet at a New York Timeslady and cried: "All over the country I have seen what I have never seen before . . . Where is the three-quarter sleeve? Where is the lithe waistline, the close-fitting hipline? The shorter hemline? These are not being worn, although we presented them in the last collections!" But, after a careful survey of passing silhouettes, she did have a good...
...Soviet functionary, a resident of Leningrad. Cordier smuggled the canvases out in a yard-wide roll of cotton cloth. While the young painter might well have had access to foreign art magazines, Cordier feels the work is too "naive" and violently experimental to suggest that he had seen any Western examples at close hand...
...Michael Weighing the Souls (opposite), a side panel on an altar of a small church in the Ribes Valley, was painted (by an unknown artist) with all the suspense of a morality play acted out upon a stage. The good saint is seen in the act of weighing souls with the Devil, before a splendid red background decorated with gold stars. Michael has caught the Devil cheating by tipping the scales, and sadly points a shaming finger. Yet to be discovered is the lesser devil compounding the crime by tugging on the weight devil's tail...
George Shearing with quintet at Storyville in the Copley Square Hotel should be seen at the Sunday afternoon matinee (2-6:30), when the cover charge drops to two dollars...