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...first prize went to thin-faced Zoltan Sepeshy, who at 49 is one of the world's best tempera technicians. His realistic landscapes, figure paintings and still lifes incline to be dull in color, but they have space, weight and solidity. And Sepeshy can reproduce the texture of almost anything in nature-from the barnacles on a beached boat to the faint down on a woman's neck. Says he: "I love the fine, eye-burning work involved. . . A friend tells me that my work is immaculate in everything but conception...
According to Cabot residents, a coated figure appeared on the thin floor ledge of the building about an hour after midnight. After an abusive tirade he dared the girls to call the police...
Almost all Kansas farmers had made plenty. Estimates of 1947's value of crops and livestock topped $1.5 billion, up $400 million from last year's record farm prosperity. That gain alone exceeded the total farm wealth produced in the state in many a thin year. Wheat was the bonanza; 1947's phenomenal crop and 1947's soaring prices added up to more than $660 million for Kansas wheat alone...
...about a month, the disc will go by truck to Mt. Palomar, 130 miles away. There the glass will be covered with a thin film of shiny aluminum and set in the telescope. Some night in the spring or summer of 1948 it will stare up at the sky as man's farthest-seeing...
...into VitaVision through his longtime friend, Writer-Producer Gene Towne, who had bought the rights to some 200 patents that went into VitaVision. VitaVision requires special cameras, paper and developing process. The key is a thin, transparent plastic screen, in effect a lens, which is laminated to the finished picture. By performing the same optical trick as a stereoscope, it gives the picture the illusion of depth...