Word: sketched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clump of bushes 15 feet below, the fire department arrived, shot up a rescue ladder. After ascertaining that his wife and three servants were safe ("A miracle," beamed New York's First Lady), the Governor ducked back into his bedroom to retrieve six Picasso drawings, a Van Gogh sketch and a portrait of his father. But surveying his gutted first floor after the blaze had been extinguished half an hour later. Rockefeller found only the charred remains of a distinguished art collection, estimated the loss at $350,000. All told. 70 pictures and sculptures were damaged or destroyed, including...
...Esmond Cecil Harmsworth,* Lord Rothermere, whose Associated Newspapers Ltd. publishes the Daily Mail, the Evening News, the Sunday Dispatch, the blatantly sensational Daily Sketch and a string of provincial newspapers. Combined circulation...
...settler's daughter, leading up to the punch line: "Jesus always pays our ransom." The first step before each production is snaring the children. The pitch is announced as Adventure Time, and what is in effect a Sunday-school session is tricked out with puppets, magicians, quick-sketch artists and ventriloquists. The moppets' roars of approval bring the adults and teen-agers swarming around in a crowd that averages 500. After about 45 minutes the three-man team piles into its motor van and speeds off to another beach...
Head in the Way. To trap the ever-changing image of war, the three illustrated papers dispatched a mere handful of men-some 30 in all from beginning to end, and never more than a dozen at any one time. The rewards were low-about $5 to $25 per sketch for piecework-and the risks were high. One chill night, Harper's Artist Theodore R. Davis, sharing his threadbare blanket with a Union soldier, waked at dawn to find his bedfellow dead beside him. "It was plain.'' wrote Davis afterward, ''that but for the intervention...
...artist's greatest obstacle was his own newspaper. The arrival of his sketches set in motion an elaborate process by which they were converted into print. Copying the drawing-in reverse-on a segmented boxwood block, separately engraving its various pieces-anywhere from 6 to 36-reassembling them and electrotyping a metal printing plate, took at least two weeks and usually more. By the time Leslie's received Henri Lovie's moving depiction of the death of Brigadier General Nathaniel S. Lyon, its home artists had already twice rendered the general's death; Lovie...