Word: models
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...bustling week for Britain's royal family, Princess Margaret paid her first official visit to Oxford, planted a tree and declared the Imperial Forestry Institute a going concern. A new car for Princess Elizabeth arrived, a dark green Daimler "consort" saloon model (price: ?1,690) complete with radio, air conditioning unit and make-up compartment. Up from Malta came father Philip to join the family in the white-and-gold music room of Buckingham Palace for another christening. Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margarita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Princess Andrew of Greece (by proxy), Earl Mountbatten and the Hon. Andrew Elphinstone, first...
...statue is itself a fraud. Daniel Chester French who sculptured it in 1885 had not the slightest idea what John Harvard looked like and used a good looking undergraduate of the time as his model...
When John H. Johnson, a young Negro publicity man in Chicago, borrowed $500 to start a new magazine, he took a successful model: the Reader's Digest (circ. about 9,000,000). But Johnson's Negro Digest, launched in 1942, was edited exclusively for Negroes. By culling other magazines for thoughtful articles about Negroes and their problems, and running original pieces by such writers as Hodding Carter, Johnson gave his Digest a sober, conscientious tone that was new to the generally sensational, often irresponsible Negro press. By 1945, Digest was such a success that Johnson started Ebony...
...Woman with Raised Arms was sketched in 1909, when the artist had already proved himself a master of academic drawing, and got bored with it. African carvings gave him a new departure: they substituted corners for classical curves and punch for prettiness. Picasso applied their principles to his Montmartre models, but he kept a respect for the realities of the human figure which the Africans never had. His Bergamo sketch was a tense, ebony-hard construction, half model and half idol. With such rough-cut works, Picasso had served notice that he preferred pioneering to perfecting...
...Glamour." A modest, monastical-ly-minded bachelor who disdains money and "glamour," takes St. Francis of Assisi for his model, Mitropoulos once surprised Minneapolis society by living in a cubicle in a University of Minnesota dormitory; he donated much of his $25,000 salary to needy composers. He has not changed his ways in Manhattan. Last month, when he took the Philharmonic into Manhattan's Roxy Theater as the stage attraction (partly to reach new audiences), he turned half of his own $5,000-a-week salary over to the orchestra's pension fund. He lives alone...