Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shine in the reflected dazzle of the crown jewels than that personable American named Douglas Fairbanks Jr. "He simply becomes electric when there is any royalty around," said one of the actor's friends. "Entree into the Fairbankses' home," wrote a catty columnist in the Daily Sketch last week, "is a hundred times more difficult than getting a ticket for the coronation...
...your Dec. 15 Personality sketch of Dr. Alfred Kinsey, you say: "Kinsey traveled 80,000 miles collecting gall wasps, and he measured, catalogued and preserved 3,500,000 specimens to demonstrate their individual variations." Assuming that it would require at least ten minutes to catch, make 28 measurements, and catalogue a single gall wasp, I calculate it would require Dr. Kinsey approximately 13½ years to complete the job on the basis of a 12-hour day. This allows no days off, no time for lunch, and no time to salve the stings (assuming gall wasps sting). Furthermore...
Most important of the items which he admitted giving them was a sketch of the Nagasaki-type atom bomb, and a twelve-page report on how it worked...
Gubler's triumphs of the last decade are intense portraits (often of his wife or of himself) and pictures of what lies before his door. He rises with the sun every day, and goes out to sketch the valley in all weathers. The sketches he likes he puts aside for a year or more, then translates them into big (5 ft. by 7 ft.) canvases in his studio. He works fast, but when a painting goes badly, he puts it aside at once, perhaps for months. "You have to get it inside yourself," he says. "Talent you can have...
...returned to the Zoo to sketch again, keeping this time an adequate distance between herself and the horned quadruped. When she had completed the drawings, Miss Lane sent them to the Corporation, which approved. Several years of casting followed, amounting to nothing when the foundry executing the work went broke. Finally in 1937 the rhinos, one wegihing 230 pounds more than the other, arrived for their unveiling at the University. Miss Lane had baptized them in the foundry, naming one Queen Victoria and her companion Queen Bess...