Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...warmest friendship to Chicago." In his absence, art scholars were busy tracing the statue's forebears back to a 1962 metal cutout titled Head of a Woman, currently on exhibition at London's Tate Gallery. But as far back as 1907, when Picasso was inspired by African masks, he painted a figure in the famed Demoiselles d'Avignon bearing an uncanny resemblance to the new sculpture. Chicago's Picasso is also a realization of an old dream. In 1929, commenting on some gigantic monuments he had conceived for the Mediterranean shore, Picasso said: "I have...
...minute. Wasn't that an unusual cap the policeman was wearing? The Chicago police department thought so. None of their men wore it. Chicago Daily News Columnist Virginia Kay was also puzzled. She did some checking and printed the results. The officer, she said, was a South African and so were the blacks he was beating at Durban in 1960. Concluded Mrs. Kay: "Looks like the university needs to temper its ads with a bit of honesty...
...University of Chicago Press was not very apologetic, though it withdrew the ad. "The South African picture was purposely chosen to illustrate the ad," said Publicity Manager Dorothy Sutherland, "since the book is a history. How anyone could mistake the picture as a commentary on the Chicago police is a surprise...
Harvey explained that two of the most popular movies. The Big Sleep and To Have and Have Not aren't available. "The Brattle doesn't have free choice of all the others we want, either," he added. For example, Sam Spiegel, producer of The African Queen, hasn't let the Queen out of his hands for about four years...
Married. Mary Olivia ("Minnie") Gushing, 24, former Girl Friday to Manhattan Fashion Designer Oscar de la Renta and daughter of Newport Socialite Howard G. Gushing; and Peter Hill Beard, 29, a photographer-writer specializing in African conservation (The End of the Game) and great-grandson of Railroad Baron James J. Hill, whom she met last year when she hurried to Kenya to care for her father, taken ill on safari; in an Episcopal ceremony followed by a reception for 400 guests; in Newport...