Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sculptor was as remote as a Hottentot becoming prime minister of Scotland," says one British artist. Today Great Britain has become a hotbed of new sculptors, with three museum shows in London currently devoted to their renaissance. Miraculous as the new flowering appears, the sculpture bloom began in the 1930s, when British artists found the seeds for their ideas on the Continent from such sources as Brancusi, Archipenko and Picasso, repotted their findings in good English earth, and began producing a hardy native growth...
Died. Pepper Martin, 61, charter member of the St. Louis Cardinals' famed Gashouse Gang in the 1930s, an outfielder and third baseman known to his fans as "the Wild Horse of the Osage" for his lunging batting style and stampeding base-running, whose finest hour came in the 1931 World Series against the Philadelphia Athletics which he won almost singlehanded, stealing five bases and batting 12 for 24; of a stroke; in McAlester, Okla...
...Quest. It is the slack time of the 1930s, and Julian Tate is a young man in need of a quest. He finds it on the day he is offered a job working in Brazil for a man named Joao Monteiro, who is trying to interest Wall Street capital in a mining concession on the Massaranduba River, a major tributary far up the Amazon. There is gold in the Massaranduba valley, and rumors of diamonds and emeralds as well. But what fires Jul ian is the chance to explore the tropic frontier, to prospect and map the river and rain...
...rule that a British musical is at best a sort of muted crumpet, has updated the old Boy by ten years. The sequel, now playing the West End, is called Divorce Me, Darling and spoofs the very same characters. In this one, however, the time is the 1930s rather than the '20s, and all the pretty young flappers have become sophisticated, cheating wives. The songs and routines are primarily parodies-of Cole and Noel, Fred and Ginger-and occasionally they are bang-on. But too often the emeritus flappers' old boop-boop-a-doop has gone poop; Wilson...
B.A.S.F. started a century ago as a manufacturer of dyestuffs, went on to develop revolutionary new processes for making sulphuric acid and liquefying chlorine; 85% of the world's nitrogen is made by a process that came out of B.A.S.F. laboratories. In the 1930s, after it had been absorbed by I. G. Farben, the company produced many new plastics and the first magnetic recording tape. To this day, magnetic tape is its only consumer product; everything else is sold as a raw material or for industrial...