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Next impediment was the ceiling, an umbrellalike structure peculiar to buildings which house cycloramas. This is hung so that natural light from a skylight is diffused over the painting. Because the outer edge of the umbrella hid parts of the painting from the camera, a roofing company was hired to raise the umbrella. ½ With floor leveled and ceiling raised, there remained the most challenging obstruction of all, a large steel pole standing in the center of the building-and this was immovable...
...Mourning's seven pupils were Coopers.) Mother Cooper disagreed with her husband's ideas about private education, and one day, when Judge Cooper was off in Texas checking some oil properties, she sent John Sherman, neatly dressed in Buster Brown collar and knickerbockers and carrying an umbrella, off to the sixth grade at the public school. Within a week he had fought the school's two leading bullies to a dogged draw, and for some time thereafter he had to take on all comers...
...hoodlum role in The Desperate Hours, a Midwestern crime story which he tried to buy himself before Paramount outbid him. Nevertheless, he has not had a gat in his hand in a long time. He not only plays a wealthy Wall-Street type (complete with Homburg, furled black umbrella, Brooks Brothers suit and briefcase), but wins the hand of lissome Audrey Hepburn in Paramount's forthcoming Sabrina. In The Barefoot Contessa, recently filmed in Italy with Ava Gardner, he is a tough old movie director...
...carrying an umbrella to Geneva," said Pearson. "We will not act in any way which would betray national honor." Nor will the government make any trade deals with the Reds. Pearson completely accepted the view expressed earlier in the debate by Tory Leader George Drew, that "Canada is not ready to sell her principles for a few dollars...
...eccentric comes to stay in a small British town. He is one of the harmless kind who imagines he is Napoleon Bonaparte, carries a rabbit in his old-fashioned beaver, decks out in a Dickensian weskit and cravat, and parades the streets in perfect weather under an open umbrella, followed by mobs of delighted children. Everybody calls him Napoleon, and is happy to have him around for laughs. The beauty of it is that Napoleon, in a well-juggled ending, turns out to be not so mad after all-or is he really much, much madder...