Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nearly all the leading U.S. abstract expressionists painted realistically before they turned to abstraction. Nine of them got through the 1930s painting government murals. "The most important thing for all of us was the WPA," says Willem de Kooning, recognized leader of the movement since the death of 44-year-old Jackson Pollock in an auto accident in 1956. The WPA was important in more than one way. It enabled the larval abstractionists to live by painting, established them as professionals and helped to produce the reaction that turned them to, abstraction in the 1940s...
Struggle for Survival. Like the Taft family that owned it, Cincinnati's Times-Star for generations had been an institution: sober, solid and solvent. The Times and Star were merged in 1880 by Charles Phelps Taft, half brother of William Howard Taft. In the 1930s and '40s, the ruggedly Republican afternoon daily vigorously backed Senator Robert A. Taft (who inherited a 5% share of the stock), reportedly earned as much as $1,000,000 a year. Through World War II, the Times-Star generally outhustled Scripps-Howard's competing afternoon Post...
...sense, the two paintings and the one sculpture witnessing Dr. Morley's farewell party one night last week were symbols in miniature of her long career. The Diego Rivera harked back to the 1930s, when San Francisco artists were caught up in Diego's own on-the-spot enthusiasm for filling vast wall surfaces with frescoes. Symbolic of what she calls "the incredible years of 1947 to 1949, when this wave of something new swept over us," was the big Clyfford Still abstraction by the man who, along with Mark Rothko, sparked San Francisco's abstract...
...results of a long-term experiment show how effective the vaccine can be. In the Archives of Internal Medicine, three University of Pennsylvania researchers report striking benefits among American Indians who got BCG as children. Of 3,000 youngsters in the study, half were vaccinated in the 1930s, while the others (from the same families and tribes, identical in all other ways) were left unvaccinated for comparison. Checked 20 years later, the unvaccinated were found to have had more than five times as many deaths from TB as the vaccinated-68 as against...
Starting in 1920 as an aerial taxi service for ranchers deep in Australia's barren, blazing outback, Qantas built up a flying-doctor service, hauled emergency well parts, food and anything else settlers wanted. By the 1930s, Qantas had expanded, flying 14-passenger flying boats on a thrice-weekly service to London. But it was only after World War II, in which Qantas' Catalinas did everything from evacuating 24,000 wounded to dropping supplies to besieged Aussie troops, that the line joined the international big league...