Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Visitors, on entering, found themselves dodging a whirling lighthouse powered by an old Victrola motor. They moved on to a "Hall of Superstition," containing a 14-foot hand made of chicken wire, plaster and canvas. In a hole in the wall, an owl, a bat and a raven played whist. In another room, artificial rain fell steadily and one dry corner was reserved for a billiard table where passersby could stop and play...
...pastime for their Fourth of July cover. The photographers, of course, had the first, and toughest, go at the story and got, by all odds, closest to the animals-sometimes too close for comfort. After a day inside the snake house at the San Diego zoo, Photographer Herman V. Wall found that getting out of the way fast at the sound of the rattlesnake's rattle became second nature. Later, while unloading his film holder, Wall learned that the sliding door of the closet in his hotel room gave the same ominous warning. When his assistant opened it unexpectedly...
...workers lost their jobs. And U.S. exports, which had taken up the slack in the economy so far, were still a big question. Unless bolstered by a U.S. program of foreign aid, such as the Marshall Plan, they were almost certain to collapse by year's end. But Wall Street felt that the aid would come, no matter how pinchpenny Congress now seemed. All this caused the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Sanhedrin of financial theologians, to say in its July report: "While individual commodity prices which got out of line may drop to lower levels...
...England. But an interesting reaction seems to be setting in among the British themselves. "England is not so badly off" is a common answer to sympathetic questions about conditions, and there seems to be a new resentment of American pity and the government's back-to-the-wall campaign. There is a very definite feeling that too much publicity about hardships has gene out to the States, and to a small degree this may be true. It is possible that the Government may have allowed an impression to creep westward that Britain is on its back rather than just back...
Some experts think that building an air-conditioned frame will be a sheer waste of effort. The trouble is really in the damp wall, they insist, and not in the air. They contend that the mural, which is painted directly on the plaster of the wall, must be peeled off somehow and pasted to a dry one. Rome's revered Art Critic Lionello Venturi, who refused to serve on the commission, has no hope that the commission will come around to the radical idea of peeling off the mural. Said he: "The painting is so sacred to them that...