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...atmosphere. From the sun comes a blast of fierce ultraviolet rays which turn glass black. Ordinary light and heat from the sun are also terrors of space. Most surfaces, especially metals, exposed to the sun above the atmosphere get too hot for comfort. Laboratory calculations show that sunlit aluminum will reach 802° F., well above its softening point...
...contributions are comparatively dour, and less deft, but their directness and monumentality may help earn him a place in history next to the two great masters of American painting, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. Max Gubler's 42 paintings turn the Swiss pavilion into a sunlit peak, and assure the reputation of a hitherto little-known artist. "Talent and ideas," says Gubler, "are nothing. The job is to paint what you have seen and what you feel in the only way those things can be expressed." That timeless credo has no truck with fashion...
...Right & Just Thing." Now, both sides were to tell their stories to the Republican State Executive Committee in the sunlit ballroom atop Mineral Wells' Baker Hotel. The Ikemen had their guard up, for the committee was known to be strongly pro-Taft...
Houston's verdict was that Bemelmans' art lives up to the Bemelmans purpose. The paintings in the show were done mostly in France and Italy-a world of squiggly churches, toyland villages and sunlit harbors, all as gay as a crazy quilt. But Bemelmans' own favorites are his paintings of people in restaurants. "A restaurant," says he, "is a refuge. I sit there floating with a bottle of wine and silently observe. Instead of a bird watcher, I am a people watcher...
...feet below gave way to icy ridges and plateaus. A Norwegian Air Force Catalina flying boat patrolling near Spitzbergen gave him a radio call as he whisked past, reported back that Captain Blair was right on course. Hour after hour, the Mustang bored through the blue-grey sunlit haze over the icecap. Blair sat hunched behind his oxygen mask occasionally shooting the sun with a sextant...