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...slow, bulky camera could catch no British armies in action, but it could catch such mood shots as "A Quiet Day in the Mortar Battery," the shallow "Valley of Death," littered with cannonballs after the Charge of the Light Brigade, and the threatening magnificence of the proud syth Regiment drawn up on parade with its tents in the background. In the leisurely pace of the war, commanders had plenty of time to put up with Fenton's elaborate posing requirements. When he photographed General Sir George Brown, commander of the British Light Division, Fenton noted appreciatively: "He was very...
...things in his 52 years. Most famous among them have been his bloody, surrealistic congress of freaks called Phenomena and Hide-and-Seek-a vast, autumnal tree with embryos and sick-looking children half hidden among its leaves (TIME, Nov. 9, 1912). Last week Tchelitchew jolted Manhattan's syth Street once more with an exhibition of 50-odd transparent heads...
...business adviser. Both were already married,† but they got divorces and were married by the Mayor of Weehawken, N.J. in October 1938. Then came the hardest times of Helen Traubel's life. She and Bill were broke. In a dark two-room West syth Street apartment near Carnegie Hall they cooked occasional lamb stews, sometimes had to scrape up money for food by cashing in on their empty milk and soda-pop bottles. They visited the Central Park zoo, and for evenings out, walked down to 42nd Street for a 10? Wild West movie, stopping for a hamburger...
...Paris, London and Berlin, Curt Valentin settled in Manhattan four years ago, opened a gallery with the help of art-loving Motor Scion Walter P. Chrysler Jr., for whom he had bought many a picture. He quickly made a name as one of the most progressive and choosy of syth Street's art impresarios. But morose Impresario Valentin dislikes selling pictures, would rather have a job in a museum. Says he sadly: "Gallery business is sometimes fun, but I hate having to make money...
...packing plants and steel mills, have a community feeling; New York's are less homogenous, work mostly in hotels and apartments. Great majority of Chicago's Negroes live in a south side section known as Bronzeville. Here the principal shopping districts are on 43rd, 47th, sist and syth Streets. Virtually all of this property belongs to whites, most of them Jews, and they make it tough for Negroes to go into business in these prize areas. Leases generally have clauses forbidding Negro tenants; and if a Negro manages to wangle a lease anyway, he is apt to find...