Word: penciled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Process In Flight. Almost daily, the planes hurdle Japan's clogged highways to cover fires, floods, shipping accidents and other news events and still return in time to meet competitive deadlines. "They are as indispensable as the walkie-talkie and the reporter's pencil," claims Shiro Hara, managing editor of Yomiuri. Many of the aircraft are equipped to process film in flight, then transmit it to newspaper offices via mobile radiophoto equipment. When a disaster breaks, speed is so important that most of the papers' airport mechanics are also trained to fill in as photographers. The dailies...
...judiciously starved or given violent purgatives to keep them submissive. Deaths from overdoses of opiates were common. Dadd survived this hell for six years. In 1852, Dr. William Hood, a pioneer in England of modern mental therapy, was assigned to Bethlehem. Hood encouraged Dadd to take up brush and pencil once again. Hood's hospital steward, George Henry Haydon, was an amateur artist and encouraged Dadd further. Dadd dedicated The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke to Haydon, gave it to him before he died at the age of 67 in 1886. The late poet Siegfried Sassoon, who gave...
Giving It Away. The boss-a roly-poly man with thinning hair and a pencil-thin mustache-seems to enjoy appearing less than couth. Stone's frequent repetition of stock lines and his mispronunciations can be misleading. He is serious, bright and extremely shrewd. Though he delegates day-to-day authority to five top aides, he makes all the major policy decisions. His three grown children are all directors of Combined. Stone goes into the office only one day a week, on other days he works at home or travels-visiting the company's field men and preaching...
...Cover: pencil and tempera by Boris Chaliapin...
...resolved to break the mold in which family and education had cast him -not, with paint brush but with pencil -he privately published a book of verse. Then, after a bout as a medical corpsman in the Turkish-Montenegrin skirmish before World War I, and marriage to the sister of an Oxford friend, he served the Empire as an assistant district officer in Nigeria. That Empire in its heyday has been described as a "system of outdoor relief for the upper classes." Cary needed the relief; his money...