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When the artist saw the reproduction of a sketch for Diego Rivera's new mural. The Nightmare of War and the Dream of Peace (TIME, March 17), he was angered by the symbolism that glorified Russia and derided the U.S. Translating his wrath into action, he picked up brush and palette, set to work on the painting shown here...
Warren D. Wylie '52, former football captain and chairman of the Class Day Committee, will outline plans for Class Week, while Chase N. Peterson '52 will sketch out the structure of the class after graduation. John L. Lewis '51 is to act as master-of-ceremonies during the brief speechmaking intermission and will introduce the Secretary, the Treasurer, and four Class Agents...
Touchy Subject. In Douglasville, Ga., as H. L. Parr started to sketch a picture of the devil his minister had asked him to make for a church meeting, a rip-roaring electric storm broke out, lightning struck a cable post, knocked out Parr's switch box, put out his lights and tore up his water pump...
...Authorities guessed that meant he was 12½ years old. Just under the sixth circle, Janos drew a line and pointed at his mouth and ears to show when he had lost his voice and hearing. Two circles later, he pantomimed the shooting of a machine gun. A succeeding sketch, showing the dotted lines of bullets headed straight from the muzzle of a machine-pistol to the heads of a man and a woman-presumably his father & mother -explained the shooting. The pistol was held by a soldier marked clearly with a hammer & sickle...
Daniel Defoe conjured his sketch of a man at the edge of the unknown out of little but an island, a parrot, a goat, a musket and a Man Friday. The "science-fiction" writer, busy working the unknown nowadays, requires planets, galaxies, universes and all the latest portents of physics. He sets out, as Defoe did, to make the reader's imagination whirl with mingled curiosity and alarm; but where Defoe found novelty in a human footstep, the science-fictioneer stakes everything on such inhuman images as "a six-foot egg made of greenish gelatin" or "nine feet...