Word: sketching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...publisher of a little, twelve-year-old Illinois newspaper asked his friend Abe Lincoln for an autobiographical sketch.* Publisher Jesse Fell didn't intend to use it in his own Bloomington Pantograph, because everyone in those parts knew all about Abe. He wanted to forward copies of it to eastern papers, to get them interested in Lincoln for President. The Lincoln manuscript has never left the family's possession; neither has the newspaper. Last week the Pantagraph celebrated its 100th anniversary with an ad-fat, 156-page issue...
...character sketch of Leahy was excellent...
...modernistic sketch of Jerusalem is so significant. No doubt the positions of the Star of David, the Cross and the Crescent were planned, or were they? From right to left, which is the way both Hebrew and Arabic read, they are chronologically correct. But what strikes me so forcibly, as a Christian, is that the Cross casts no shadow upon the City."" ... I believe both the Crescent and the Star of David will always cast a shadow on Palestine, no matter who was there first or who is there...
Victory Preferred. Like other combat artists, Japanese painters moved with the troops. Three were killed in China (one by a bullet which pierced his sketch board), and several more went down with ships in the South Pacific. But Japanese artists usually stayed well behind the front lines, worked from photographs or imagination...
...witnesses, the Nürnberg war crimes trial drew to an end. The courtroom was almost gay. French Associate Judge Robert Falco drew funny pictures which he passed from the bench down to his wife. In the dock, Builder Albert Speer was playing a game: he drew sketch after sketch of a new house for Banker Hjalmar Schacht (who rejected each version because the bathrooms were in the wrong place...