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London's tabloid Daily Mirror immediately nominated the Dean for "the most unending ass, half in Christendom and half in Communism." The London Daily Sketch's editorial columnist, Candidus, angrily scored his "antics and political clowning," suggested a boycott of the cathedral whenever he preached. From the pulpit of London's St. Luke's Church, the Rev. Hector Morgan issued another blast: "Send Dr. Johnson on a permanent mercy mission to the prisoners in the salt mines of Siberia...
...Aireview, Japan's largest aviation monthly (circ. 20,000), which printed classified details of the F-100, including a detailed diagram. In Washington Air Force security people launched an investigation to find out how this breach of security occurred, said that any U.S. publication that reprinted the Japanese sketch would be "violating security...
Burra works slowly (more than a month to a picture) at a table drawn up to the window of whatever room he happens to occupy. He uses the largest sheets of watercolor paper he can get, sometimes pastes four together. Starting with a light pencil sketch, he lays in his flat, thick colors layer on layer, while keeping the contours crisp. Burra's end results generally have the sharp complexity of cactus, and the effect of an unpleasant, totally unexpected laugh sounding from below the cellar stairs...
...showed that the paint in the National Gallery's Francia did not have the heavy amounts of lead carbonate usual in most Renaissance paintings. Infra-red exposure for half a minute revealed black pencil lines under the paint (unknown in Francia's works). More important the pencil sketch was not in Francia's style. Under the microscope the painting's craquelure, instead of conforming to the regular pattern, spidered over the painting...
hands and crumple it. If she likes it, she will buy a few yards and put it on a shelf. When inspiration strikes, she dashes off a simple little sketch that looks, to the layman, something like a child's matchstick drawing of a man. But to the seven sample hands who work in the room next door to her cubbyhole office, the stark lines are enough directions for them to start draping...