Word: apollos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Giovanni Bellini's Feast of the Gods has long been a puzzle as well as a masterpiece. The gods look more drunk than divine. Vesta, protector of virgins, lies dozing in one corner of the picture while Priapus fiddles with her skirt. A blowsy Ceres helps Apollo hoist cup to lip. Neptune is paired off with Gaea, who holds a quince -the symbol of marriage. Bacchus appears as a child, and his foster father Silenus looks more like a slender ascetic than a roly-poly satyr. Generations of art scholars have wondered...
...vaudeville performer, Jackie Robinson thought, he would make a good first baseman. Explained Jackie: "I can't sing or dance." But at Harlem's Apollo Theater and Washington's Howard, Robbie picked up more money in two weeks than the $5,000 Branch Rickey paid him for seven months with the pennant-winning Brooklyn Dodgers (TIME, Sept. 22). Last week his show played Chicago's Regal Theater. It wasn't much of an act. He was onstage only eight minutes, and he neither sang nor danced-just answered, in a modest manner and a clear...
Union. The persistent shortage of steel prompted 25 small steel-using manufacturers to chip in about $4,000,000 for a steel mill of their own in Phoenixville, Pa. This Phoenix-Apollo Steel Co. had also bought an Apollo (Pa.) sheet mill to process the ingots from Phoenixville. The manufacturers, whose plants are scattered from New England to the Midwest, expect that production will be more than enough to keep all of them operating at capacity...
...floor of moderns, to give Manhattanites a rare peek at her old stuff. On exhibition were 27 prize paintings and sculptures, mostly dating from the 19th Century (and from the early Hupmobile raids). Among the standouts: a sad-eyed Woman with Yellow Shawl from Massachusetts, a tapestry-like little Apollo and Marsyas by Edward Hicks, and a Hogarthian Farmhouse Gossip (see cut), signed T. G. Knight, which she had found in Pennsylvania...
...Others: blue green and apollo blue, yellow and blue grey, silver grey and dark silver grey, warm cream and copper rose, light green and grey green. All ceilings are either off-white or light cream...