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...information." The show went on, and the British press, aware of Murrow's gag attempt, delightedly gave his role as narrator full billing. "Murrow's documentary," said the London Daily Herald, "blazed fiercely with his incomparable and indispensable indignation." Wrote Neville Randall in the London Daily Sketch: "I can only say that if Murrow builds up America as skillfully as he tore it to pieces last night, the propaganda war is as good...
...elephant and a mouse by an anonymous artist to works of the Goyaesque Felice Giani, who died in Rome in 1823 after an artistic career that included decorating the apartments in the Tuileries for Josephine Bonaparte. In scope, the collection runs from Paolo Uccello's geometric sketch of the 32 surfaces of the mazzocchio, a circular wicker framework used by Florentines as a base for their characteristic cloth headpieces, to an intricately executed sketch by Artist-Author Giorgio Vasari (Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects) of a battle scene to be reproduced in epic proportions...
...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...
...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...