Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American fair in Moscow, said the President, "is a very huge affair, and this furor about the art is ... really a relatively minor sector . . . The art is down in two fairly small rooms and the exhibition is all over two floors." As for the selection of paintings, he admitted a preference for Andrew Wyeth's study of an elderly lady, but refused to quarrel with the jury.* "I have nothing to say about them because I am not an artist . . . I am not now going to be any censor...
...four-man jury still knew what it liked, snapped back a telegram to the President describing the Moscow offerings as "the broadest, most representative exhibition of American art of the last 30 years ever sent abroad by our Government." And Manhattan Art Dealer Edith
...special committee appointed by George V. Allen, director of the U.S. Information Agency: Franklin C. Watk.ins of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Lloyd Goodrich, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art; Henry Radford Hope, chairman of the Fine Arts Department of Indiana University; and Sculptor Theodore Roszak of Sarah Lawrence College...
...view of the rift, according to Mazo: "We are not unfriendly. We are two individuals going our own ways." Last week the Chicago Tribune's Walter Trohan added another note. According to the Tribune, Chief Justice Warren in 1957 blackballed an invitation to Vice President Nixon from the American Bar Association to attend the celebrated London meeting at which more than 3,000 U.S. and British lawyers examined the basis of the common law (TIME, Aug. 5, 1957). Said Warren, according to the Tribune, to David Maxwell, then president of the A.B.A.: "If you let that fellow in, count...
...Kremlin, but drove him out into the country for an intimate little dinner with Kozlov, Mikoyan and Gromyko. Last week an alarmed Harriman cabled significant excerpts of the conversation to Washington for President Eisenhower to study, and repeated some of them in articles for LIFE and the North American Newspaper Alliance...