Word: aitkens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were 1,000 different exhibits on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art's annual May show last week but. like homing pigeons, socialites hustled to the sculpture department to see what too, too amazing Russell Aitken had to show this time. They were not disappointed. A Special Award for Sustained Excellence was given him for a brilliantly glazed ceramic figure entitled The Futility of a Well Ordered Life...
Described as "a bit of surrealism to end all surrealism" by Ceramist Aitken, the figure was a burlesque of the paintings and parties of Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dali (TIME, Nov. 26). It was a very white lady with turquoise blue hair, clock faces for breasts and lamb chops sprouting from her shoulders. In a turquoise lined square aperture in her stomach stands a brightly colored vase. A fried egg is in one hand, a blue fish in the other. Around her stomach is a girdle of field mice. Directly in front of her polished thighs are two little football players...
...Public Favorite was David Lloyd George; No. 2, Winston Churchill; No. 3, William Maxwell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook, tireless, hard-driving master of the Express...
...dumped off in the north Pacific, and be awaiting the arrival of the President Cleveland? I am truly curious. I have sailed that stretch plenty of times, and never once have I seen a "post box" of any description. But of course we live and learn. . . . ALFRED C. AITKEN...
...Mariner Aitken a gentle rebuke for being ignorant of one of the oldest hoaxes of navigation, mid-ocean mail delivery.? ED. Salem's Witches Sirs...