Word: sketch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...canvas-shod, stocking-capped era of the '80s, down to the latest award made by the Touchdown Club-with turn-of-the-century photographs, cartoons and illustrations by such artists as the late great Arthur B. Frost and Frederic Remington. Among its outstanding illustrations : Artist Frost's sketch of the Yale-Princeton game (see cut) played in Hoboken on Thanksgiving Day 1879-memorable because 1) it resulted in a scoreless tie; 2) Yale's Captain Walter Camp flabbergasted the referee by asking permission to put in a substitute, though no player had been injured; 3) the cane...
Meanwhile, London newsmen grew suspicious. There a similar photo, slightly different, ran as an exclusive picture in the Daily Sketch. Said Sketch's caption: "Taken at the height of battle [it] shows . . . five of the German planes crashing in flames. . . . Trails of smoke tell the tale." Newsmen went around to Planet's office, demanded the original print, rubbed wet fingers over it. Three of the planes, most of the smoke disappeared. There remained a dark spot which looked like a Nazi raider spiraling down in flames, several other faint specks, some dark streaks that might have been smoke...
...about what the U. S. woman will wear this fall. But the fall styles were not made in Manhattan. Their keynote was struck in Paris last May-by Schiaparelli, by Lanvin, by Chanel, Molyneux, LeLong, etc.-in their regular midseason openings, sparsely attended but well covered by cable and sketch. Since then Paris has fallen. The U. S. dress business will soon need more guidance. Otherwise it will not know what to make...
ESCAPE WITH ME-An Oriental Sketch Book-Osbert Sltwell-Harrison-Hilton ($3). For the first 50 pages, readers may squirm at Osbert Sitwell's mannerisms (which include frequent use of the word "alas"). For the remaining 265 pages they may enjoy his style, which is elaborate, delicately colorful, at times moving. His impressions of Angkor Wat in French IndoChina and the Forbidden City in Peking have an atmosphere such as might now be found in the report of a traveler of the Fifth Century A. D. who first examined the ruins of Babylon and then went on to live...
Belatedly the Aircraft Production Ministry thought it was going to run short of "aluminium," called on housewives to contribute objects of rolled "aluminium" such as kitchenware, hair-curlers, shoe trees, cocktail shakers, beer mugs. A few hundred tons trickled in and the Daily Sketch cheerily headlined: "From the Frying Pan Into the Spitfire...