Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...rather see a portrait of a dog that I know," said Samuel Johnson, "than all the allegorical paintings ... in the world." That preference is common enough to make portrait painting a profitable sideline for some artists and a posh profession for many. Last week, in an elegantly furnished Park Avenue gallery known as "Portraits, Inc.," sample portraits by 50 of the nation's top practitioners went on display...
Even through a large telescope, Mars looks like a small reddish disc doing a slightly hysterical dance. But delicate instruments can measure with fair accuracy on its barren surface the temperature of spots as small as 400 miles wide. Since differences of temperature (which make an atmosphere circulate) are the basic cause of weather, measurements of temperature can be translated into a crude weather...
Better than Steamboating. Now the nation's No. 1 handicapper, Jack Campbell has been figuring horses most of his life. The son of a Mississippi steamboat captain, he discovered at an early age that he could make up to $10,000 a year pitting his judgment against the bookies'. It beat steamboating, but no one, he figured, could beat the bookies forever...
...doing of Lifar's friends, charged outraged Company Manager Thomas Fisher, husband of Ruth Page. They had bought up a block of balcony seats, he said, and caused the disorder. One member of the Page-Stone troupe swore a Lifar protege had told him: "We are going to make it impossible for an American ballet troupe to appear in Paris after what happened [to us] in New York...
...Church of England Youth Council prepared a prayer asking God's forgiveness for "the shortcomings of our imperial history, the greed and failure to consider the interests of the weak." Last week Anglican lay leaders objected to the prayer's use. Their reason: it would make propaganda for the Russians...