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...Esposizioni to house it. To fill the 2½ kilometers of wall space they arranged a big retrospective of 19th and 20th century Italian art, asked Italy's 250 top painters and sculptors to send an average of four works apiece, issued a blanket invitation to every other brush and chisel wielder in Italy to try his luck with the show's jury...
Apparently they do, for each summer some 75 professors pour into Oak Ridge for research and brush-up courses on the latest scientific developments. In turn, the institute sends out members of its own staff to lecture at campuses all over the South. With Southern medical schools, the institute also maintains a special laboratory and 30-bed hospital ward to study the effects of atomic energy materials on cancer...
Henry Adams, in his eloquent book about Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, called these windows "the most splendid color decoration the world ever saw, since no other material, neither silk nor gold, and no opaque color laid on with a brush, can compare with translucent glass, and even the Ravenna mosaics or Chinese porcelains are darkness beside them...
...biggest change, and the one that has boomed year-round painting, is paint with a rubber, instead of an oil, base. These paints are virtually odorless, will dry in an hour or so with windows closed. They are easy to apply, and it is almost impossible to leave brush marks with them. A year ago, only a handful of paint companies were marketing rubber-based paints. Now there are about 50, and in another year, more than 1,000 are expected to be cashing in on the bonanza...
Rollers have been around for years. But the old-style roller was hardly an improvement on the brush; it still had to be dipped in a pan, would drip paint. The newer rollers, made by Cleveland's Kenwill Corp. and others, hold the paint inside the cylinder, let it out through holes onto a rubber or fabric sleeve so that it can be rolled on walls or ceilings without dripping. Even the big brush makers like Rubberset Co. are beginning to sell rollers. But brush makers are not giving up the battle. Sears, Roebuck recently began selling a brand...