Word: sketch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interesting works: an uncommissioned portrait of John F. Kennedy that Jamie has been working on for the last four months. Since he never met the late President, Jamie has been painting from photographs and movies, and has made several trips to Washington from Chadds Ford, Pa., in order to sketch Senator Ted Kennedy, "because friends told me he looks like his brother. It's much better working from life," said Jamie. "A half-hour with the man would be worth all the pictures...
...clockmaker, and his father, a mechanical engineer who was sent to Scotland from South Bend, Ind., to manage the Singer sewing machine factory in Clydebank. Rickey also showed an early facility for drawing, and while at Balliol College, Oxford, he used to cross the street to sketch at the Ruskin School of Drawing...
Cabaret's ambitions are loftier than those of most musicals: it attempts to sketch an era by playing a personal drama against a political one. But the attempt gets lost in a mire of timeless musical cliches, and we are left with a peculiarly ungripping love story...
...such a heady atmosphere, Christie's now expects that Peter Paul Rubens' The Judgment of Paris, which they first appraised as a $280 copy by Lankrink (TIME, Sept. 16), will top $225,000 when it goes on the block next month. Another newly discovered Rubens, an oil sketch for his Samson and Delilah, will join it for an estimated $140,000. Henry Ford II will take profits on Christie's block in December by selling off four works by Matisse, Signac, Vuillard and Picasso for upwards...
...Engineer Charles Brindley, head of Radio Corp. of America's RSA research program. Despite the difficulties, an RCA scientist managed to use radar signature analysis as early as 1958 to describe Sputnik 2. When the Russians finally displayed a model of the satellite, it was confirmed that the sketch was remarkably accurate. It even included Sputnik's special radar reflectors-which led the U.S. to the conclusion that the Soviet tracking network included many low-power World War II radars. Refinement of RSA equipment and technique now allows analysts to make considerably more sophisticated, but highly classified, conclusions...