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...battalion headquarters of the enemy. Startled while lounging around after their breakfast, most of the Germans started to surrender. Then German machine guns started raking the area from only 30 yds. away. Of the Americans, only York and seven privates survived. While the seven privates scrambled into the brush, York, still surrounded by some prostrate, ready-to-give-up Germans, crouched in the mud, quickly went to work with his Springfield...
ORCHESTRA PORTRAITS (Pacific Jazz).Composer-Arranger-Bandleader Gerald Wilson conducts his zesty, Hollywood-based big band, using huge splashes of colored sound propelled by a cast-iron beat. The wide brush works best on his own pieces; So What by Miles and 'Round Midnight by Thelonious lose their definition...
...scrolls, which unrolled horizontally up to 40 ft., served as the picture books and newsreels of feudal Japan. To document Perry's arrival, and satisfy their feudal masters' incorrigible curiosity, Japanese artists swarmed aboard Perry's six black ships, sketching virtually everything in sight with swift brush strokes on mulberry-bark paper. Their captions are often as eerily strange as their pictures, which confirmed the Japanese notion that all Westerners had enormous noses and were covered with hair. Cleanshaven Commodore Perry is shown as a slant-eyed demon, heavily mustached and bearded, with eyebrows as thick...
...like supersonic aircraft with much less drag than short, fat, traditional bullets. Several can be fired from the same cartridge, but Army experts prefer to use one per cartridge and have the gun fire three flechettes automatically in quick succession. The darts are easily deflected by wind, brush or even leaves, and when they hit an enemy they may pass straight through his body without doing much damage. But it is far more likely that they will turn and bend, slashing through flesh like high-speed knives...
London's Sotheby & Co. has become the world's largest art auction house by conscientious attention to both fine detail and broad brush stroke in the art of auctioneering. Last week Sotheby's also portrayed deft talent as a buyer. Outbidding U.S. Investment Executive Alex Hillman, it paid $1.5 million to win 75% control of the major U.S. auction house, Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries. By acquiring its biggest U.S. competitor, Sotheby's secured a long-needed U.S. auction outlet and assured itself the role of auctioneer for most of the important American art collections...