Word: knapsack
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Artist Leigh learned his nature firsthand, trekking up & down the Western deserts with his paints and brushes in his knapsack. In 1926 he went with the American Museum of Natural History's late ace taxidermist Carl Ethan Akeley on an expedition into East Africa to paint museum backdrops. Today, hale and high (6 ft. 2 in.) at 74, he lives comfortably in a trophy-laden Manhattan studio, helps his wife, Ethel Traphagen, collect costumes for the Traphagen School of Fashion, which she owns...
Dusty and tousled in grimy white ducks and sweater, with a knapsack at his shoulder and an umbrella in his hand, wanderlusty Pianist-Composer Percy Grainger trudged into the Cheyenne, Wyo., depot, was hailed by cops, who wanted to know his name. One officer heard it. grunted: "And I'm William Tell," marched him into the station. There Vagabond Grainger produced his proof, departed unperturbed for a concert engagement at Greeley, Colo...