Word: sitters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once brushed aside a criticism that his portrait of Gertrude Stein did not look like her by saying simply: "It will." In Manhattan, Vienna-trained Painter Rudolf Ray, 63, is trying to go Picasso one better. His aim: to arrive at the final "soulscape," the abstract essence of the sitter, by painting a series of eight portraits-one on top of the other. To the uninitiated the soulscapes may look like nothing more than shards of colored glass or a heavy calligraphic scrawl. But to Ray's followers, who include Hindu gurus, Taoist philosophers and Jung disciples, the paintings...
...Schwerin Research Corp., which has 30 clients (e.g., General Mills, Borden, Colgate-Palmolive), has tested more than 3,500 commercials on more than 1,000,000 viewers. Among his findings: that scantily clad models are poor saleswomen (they distract viewers from products they demonstrate); that a "baby sitter" who plugs a TV set as the best of any that she has seen in the homes where she has worked, is more effective than an "engineer"; that a professional chef who tells how easy a prepared cake mix is to use does not get anywhere near the audience response...
...baby-sitter bill," pouted Judge Tomasello of the Boston Municipal Court. He was referring to one of Governor Herter's judiciary bills, the one which would set up a number of courts wholly devoted to juvenile delinquency. Judge Tomasello's opinion is interesting not so much for its content as for the forum from which it was made. He delivered it ex cathedra, from his high bench, in the course of a decision on a case before...
...Story Hour. In Chicago, two gunmen invaded the home of Louis Fahrberger, discovered that he was away, entertained the baby-sitter and Fahrberger's children with fairy tales until he returned, then robbed him of $4,525 in cash and an estimated $7,000 in jewelry...
NORTON (UP)--. . . At four, Brian Van Dale gave his baby sitter a nasty turn by perfectly reading a chapter from her high school biology textbook...