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Gallerygoers in half a dozen U.S. cities will soon find themselves face to face with a strange and disturbing race of men-huge, monolithic, slab-sided figures in stone and bronze, their heads little more than squared blocks, arms often missing or merged with their torsos. They are the work of Vienna-born Fritz Wotruba, 48,, Austria's leading sculptor and one of the few major new art talents to emerge from postwar Europe. Last week a 300-ton display of Sculptor Wotruba's monumental figures opened at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, the first stop...
...presses economize in time, men and materials. In one manufacturing operation, for example, the Air Force formerly needed a 1,600-lb. slab of aluminum, had to machine certain parts. Total cost: $18,000. Now, with the new presses, a 200-lb. slab of aluminum furnishes enough metal for the same number of parts, which can be stamped out. Cost: less than...
Died. Karl Hofer. 76. director of West Berlin's Academy of Art and dean of German expressionist painters, famed for his rigid studies of lonely, slab-faced men and women (TIME, Aug. 18, 1952); of a stroke; in Berlin. Old Rebel Hofer was damned by the Nazis as "degenerate" after his widely praised oil. The Wind, won the Carnegie International jury's $1,000 first prize in 1938. He continued to paint in secret, lost some 300 paintings in an Allied bombing raid in 1943, but set doggedly to work at war's end to reproduce them...
...engineering equipment, went into a whole line of heavy machine tools. For its heavy military business in the '30s, Vickers was tagged a "merchant of death." But in World War II, its fabled Spitfire (935,000 sorties by 1945) helped win the Battle of Britain, and its slab-sided Wellington bomber supplied the R.A.F.'s first counterpunch...
...Bullet Is Waiting (Welsch; Columbia). In old-fashioned movies, when an innocent girl was trapped with two desperate men in a cabin miles from anywhere, the bad guy made his grab and wound up on a slab, while the good guy took the lady to the preacher. But times have changed. In this picture, for instance the cabin serves as a sort of alchemical vessel in which all the characters are essentially transformed. As a matter of fact after sitting in that cabin for about 85 minutes the moviegoer may never be the same again, either...