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...extinct College Comics when in from the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts bounced Freelancer Jean Miller to sell him a cover illustration. She did not sell the cover, but a year later they were married. After mothering a son and daughter, she resumed her career by selling a sketch to Altmans' in 1929, soon had all the big New York department stores on her list, now is one of the best-paid freelancers on the Avenue...
...when Delacroix accompanied a French diplomatic mission to Morocco. His notes on the most vivid adventure of his life are clipped, wholly objective, brilliantly businesslike, set down only to help him remember details of what he saw. Some of them are like a modern Imagist poem or a sketch for a cinema continuity: "The entrance to the castle: The Guardsmen in the court, the faÇade, the lane between two walls. At the end, under a sort of vault, men seated, making a brown silhouette against...
...example of the first or literal type would be Mr. Lougee's sketch of an abstract conception of "Pillar of Society." Here, he shows a strong, distinguished, hardened face in the foreground, with other smaller and shadier faces behind. The flight of the author's imagination has showed a shady pen in the background, indicating that the "pillar" of respectability may have made his riches through smuggling rum. The whole piece gives the impression of a sinful past to the strong central figure...
...kinds of electric batteries, a delicate galvanometre, two radio vacuum tubes, eleven resistors, one grid leak and four switches. "The actual construction should be undertaken by an experienced mechanic who is thoroughly familiar with radio set construction," says Dr. Burr, who is prepared to show any proper investigator a sketch of the wiring diagram...
...Authoress Margaret Mitchell Marsh; a temporary injunction restraining Showman Billy Rose from participating in the profits of his Casa Mañana Review at the Fort Worth Frontier Centennial, in which he used the name of her novel Gone With The Wind as the name of one of his sketches; in Fort Worth. The injunction does not prevent continuance either of the review or of the sketch...