Word: sketching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presented to Cortes. The section on "The Protestant Reformation" includes a caricature doodled by a seminarian of his instructor, one John Calvin. The world's first modern observatory helps illustrate "The Dawn of Modern Science." Watteau's dimpled courtesans bring "The Age of Enlightenment" to life. A sketch of Marie Antoinette riding to the guillotine does the same for "The Age of Revolutions." Missouri Painter George Caleb Bingham's Verdict of the People gives weight to the concluding chapters on America...
...Investigating Committee last March, Rudolph Halley has become a political candidate (for president of the New York City Council), a Hearst columnist and a TV actor. In Crime Syndicated, his first sponsored show, Halley takes his audience on a Cook's tour of the underworld. Highlight: a dramatized sketch about dope peddlers, which came to the surprising conclusion that crime does pay, showed how a Government witness was intimidated by hoodlums in court and then murdered before she could testify again...
...again. Although he has made a few cautious ventures into television, he fears it as a monster which can gobble up his tricks and wear out his material in a matter of weeks. He thinks his future lies with his past- in the old Broadway musical comedy, where a sketch like his famed Woodchopper routine goes down as a classic through the years. Back at his old pitch, with a solid hit on his hands, Lahr has proved that there is still a place on Broadway for his vanishing breed...
...towns 20 miles apart on the southernmost tip of Texas got different versions of TIME'S Aug. 20 issue. In Harlingen, 240 subscribers received a magazine in which the Press section contained stories on the Cincinnati Post's crusade against municipal graft and a sketch on the Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano. In nearby Raymondville, county seat of Willacy County, 70 subscribers got copies in which the Press section reported the life & death of Press Lord William RandolphHearst.*The difference represented the kind of magazine reporting made possible when the best in highspeed communication and printing equipment...
...think it would be interesting to know what steps Dictator Trujillo took to suppress your damning sketch...