Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Furthermore, Pittsburgh's other Pirates, professional footballers, announced that they were headed for the championship of the National Football League this fall. Reason: Owner Art Rooney, whose hunches on horse races have brought him a fortune, had at long last succeeded in signing Colorado's Byron ("Whizzer") White, highest scorer (122 points) and most publicized player of last year's crop of college footballers...
...American Design. Like the State Guides produced by the Writers' Project, this nationwide compilation is the outcome of WPA teamwork. The stimulation of group work appearing elsewhere among the 320-odd paintings, prints, murals and sculpture on view was an occasion for pride to Daniel Catton Rich, the Art Institute's cheerful, hulking young director...
...anyone interested in trends in American art," said he, "this exhibition is extremely revealing. ... A healthier balance between content and interpretation is on the way. We find artists on the same project influencing one another in the significant manner that artists' groups have always influenced their members...
...dramatic coach, raised to a fabulous power of complexity. He tells $5,000-a-week stars where to stand and how to speak, screenwriters with millionaires' incomes how to rewrite the classics they are translating into the topical vernacular, photographers where to point cameras as big as limousines, art directors to fabricate rooms, streets or cities. If producers are top dogs of the cinema as an industry, directors are its top craftsmen. Their pay runs from $200 a week (for beginners) to what Columbia pays Capra for turning out one or two films a year...
...years Princeton University's department of art and archeology has been patiently indexing every known objet d'art of the Christian world of the first 13 centuries, A.D. Over 75,000 trinkets and treasures have been catalogued. Last week the department announced that an anonymous gift of $100,000 would greatly accelerate the project. Completion, said Princeton proudly, is now expected within the first half of the 20th Century...