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...exhibits ranged from a sketch of a row of ash cans to voluptuous nudes, from academic watercolors to trick photographs like that of a G.I. being menaced by a ten-foot hypo needle. One above-average recording of Army life "off limits" was T-4 George R. Imhof's Leaving Fast-a harassed G.I. taking hasty leave of two dingy girls in a dingy back room (see cut). At the opposite pole of graphic imagery: Corporal Neil D. Schworm Jr.'s Corpse in the Moonlight, a gouache fantasy featuring a robed skeleton floating high over a toylike country...
Finally rousing himself resolutely, he decided that this lost soul must be educated, and brought back into the fold. He strode to the book-case and pulled down his copy of Jack Frost's "Harvard and Cambridge Sketch Book." After a few moments spent thumbing through the pages, he located the one he sought...
...needed. When he sees some of the atrocities committed on art by the retreating Nazis, he frequently has trouble with his blood pres sure. During the past year Colonel De Wald, who invariably refers to Italy's priceless objets d'art as "stuff & things," could sketch, from reports of his staff, a broad outline of what has happened to liberated Italy's historic architecture. Highlights...
...least three Navy combat artists, to sketch the fighting...
...Hand, formerly product designer for The Schaible Co. (small plumbing fixtures) of Cincinnati, have been much annoyed by these streamlined taradiddles. Seized one day with a desire to debunk the false prophets, Mullikin & Hand planned a reductio ad absurdum, their own radar-electronic "kitchen of tomorrow," and showed a sketch of it to their boss. Schaible was so tickled that it rounded out the idea in a burlesque pamphlet, sent it out as direct-mail advertising. By last week, requests for the pamphlet were running ahead of the printers...