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...used older-sister cajolery, and Julius had given money ("Money is no object," Julius had said, explaining that it came from "friends") to persuade David and his confused wife Ruth to join the treasonable conspiracy. Later, Yakovlev conveyed the commendation of his masters in Moscow for Greenglass' sketches: "Extremely excellent and very valuable." At the Rosenberg trial, a U.S, atomic expert, examining a duplicate sketch drawn by Greenglass, testified that it showed the atom bomb substantially as perfected. And he meant the improved wartime Abomb, the implosion type used at Nagasaki...
Brazil's Candido Portinari takes a more traditional approach to the subject. His sketch for the first of two 46-ft.-high murals for U.N.'s Manhattan headquarters (opposite) is a prism through which he sees war as a curse on all mankind. Instead of germs and peace doves, Portinari shows the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, dashing headlong on a mad, zigzag course through humanity. Hyenas roam his shattered world and lines of sobbing mothers bend in prayer for their lost sons...
...jealous of her husband's affection for his pet cat. Pride, directed by Claude (Devil in the Flesh) Autant-Lara, is a mordant study of an impoverished, aristocratic mother and daughter (well played by Franchise Rosay and Michele Morgan). The best episode is Gluttony, a Rabelaisian sketch written and directed by Carlo Rim, about a handsome doctor, who seeks shelter during a storm in the home of a peasant. There he is taken with the peasant's tasty cheese as well as with his pretty wife. The ending, in which he chooses between the two, is typically French...
...radical, dangerous experiment in sustained supersonic flight. Most of the small gallery of onlookers-pilots, engineers and Douglas executives-had seen it many times before, and presumably most of them had confidence in it. But few could have escaped some twinges of misgiving as the strange, sharklike craft (see sketch above) was prepared for flight...
Starting with Sky. Born in West Virginia, Leigh studied art for twelve years in Munich under a succession of adept nature painters named Rauff, Gsis, Loeftz and Lindenschmidt. They taught him to make a detailed charcoal sketch on canvas and paint over it, starting with the sky ("If there are no clouds, the sky may take no more than a day") and working toward the foreground, finishing each part separately. Such grandiose subjects as sunsets and stampedes, he learned, may take up to six months to finish. But for Leigh, the finished result, an almost photographic naturalism, is well worth...