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...international museum fraternity: how to light a painting. From the Renaissance to the 19th century, side-window lighting was the principal solution, with now and then a smoking torch to light a royal procession through a gallery. The Louvre's Grande Galerie, begun by Napoleon, introduced the skylight roof on a grand scale, and with it natural overhead lighting-but without bright success. In 1857 London's Victoria and Albert Museum experimented with fishtail gas jets, lighted by a traveling pilot light that was propelled along a track by a clockwork motor; in 1877 the Victoria and Albert...
...covered the London air raids from the streets and rooftops, made a point of dining under a skylight in a Soho restaurant. Against CBS orders, he went on 25 bombing missions over Germany and broadcast from a British minesweeper in World War II. He has rushed to floods, tornadoes and hurricanes, made three different trips to cover the Korean front-one during his month's vacation-and once had to be hospitalized for exhaustion on his return. Last season, between interviews with Nasser in Cairo, Chou En-lai in Rangoon, and Tito on the island of Brioni, he dashed...
...answer to every problem, he made his M.I.T. auditorium a billowing, white shell of concrete, resting on three points, in which the acoustic elements could be placed. His questioning ("Need a church be rectangular?") produced M.I.T.'s cylindrical brick hatbox chapel, lighted from a single honeycomb skylight above and light bounced up from the narrow, containing moat through low arches to give the interior a grotto-like mystery and calm...
...Williamstown, Mass. next week, one of the newest U.S. art museums will celebrate its first anniversary by opening its handsome new central court, one of the most ingenious exhibition rooms ever devised. To keep the light at ideal brilliance, the 76-ft.-by-54-ft. skylight ceiling has a photoelectric device which automatically adjusts louvers if the sun is too bright, turns on cold cathode light tubes as sunlight fades...
...almost too fast and furious. One minute somebody is dippy on ether fumes, the next he is nursing a stuffed gorilla in an ambulance; and before the audience can say cholecystelectrocoagulectomy, a flowerpot shatters on the dean's skull, and the hero crashes through a skylight into bed with-that's right-the head nurse herself...