Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dutch Engineer Cornelis Pot, 64, arrived in Manhattan last week with a slightly different solution. For Pot, the old scale was still serviceable: the trouble lay in the way it was put to paper, with a confusion of sharps, flats and keys. In his Klavarscribo method ("marvelously simple, simply marvelous," says Pot happily), all of that is eliminated by indicating notes (and measures) on vertical lines that correspond to the keys of the piano, black notes for black keys, white for white...
Head Up, Chin Up. Last week, when Shirley May finally took the plunge, she had missed the good weather. She also missed most of the newsmen. On their way over from England, they were far out in mid-Channel at take-off time aboard a picturesque but snail-slow two-masted schooner, christened the Black Magic by Shirley May's pressagent Ted Worner (and later rechristened the Black Maria by disgusted newsmen). The Associated Press had wisely hired its own steamer, the Red Commodore (complete with a restaurant and bar), as well as a speedboat and plane...
When five-year-old Janie Franz turned up in Philadelphia last week, a day after she had been kidnaped from Trenton, the Associated Press solemnly surveyed the geography of the case and told how her father took the good news: " 'I'd run all the way to Philadelphia to get her back,' he said." Added the literal-minded A.P.: "The two cities are 35 miles apart...
London gallerygoers last week had only to look at 27 of Wilson's latest drawings to see that he was not a complicated intellectual howitzer but something considerably easier to take: a self-taught artist who had a fresh way of seeing things and a gift for getting them down on paper. Scottie's world was a cheerful place where everything fell into intricate designs of delicately colored ink. Strange and luxuriant plants spread across his drawings with the spontaneous elaboration of a Persian carpet; forms, half-vegetable, half-animal, grew out of each other like coral...
...spent with lepers, but in one way or another, most of it has been spent teaching. In time, as founder of the Allahabad Agricultural Institute, Sam Higginbottom became famous. Maharajas called him in for advice; the Viceroy invited him to tea; both high- and low-caste Indians became his students. Last week, in a rambling autobiography-Sam Higginbottom, Farmer (Scribner; $3)-the 74-year-old missionary tells his story...