Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the Philadelphia Warriors, Penn is big and fast. The Quakers are led by Sam Lyon, a six-foot four-inch center and perhaps the best in the League. His left-hand hook shot has averaged 16 points a game. Besides height, the team has an excellent set shot artist in Phil Harman...
Pinball is rapidly breaking down into a direct war between distributor and student. A good pinball artist, whom the inhabitants of the pinball-and-cheeseburger emporiums like to call a "fifty-mission-man," frequently can accumulate free games all afternoon on one nickel; the distributors are constantly making the machines more difficult...
...Artist Georgia O'Keefe and dramatist Maxwell Anderson head the list of prospective lecturers, and Francis O. Matthiesson, professor of History and Literature, may be asked to chair the conference...
...Good Bit More. Lewenthal, proprietor of the moneymaking Associated American Artists Galleries (Manhattan, Chicago, Beverly Hills), who has promoted the work of many a U.S. artist (e.g., Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton) on to Christmas cards, De Beers diamonds ads, etc., offered to buy the picture for 50,000 francs (about $400 at the time). But the canny patron was in no hurry; after the painting was authenticated as Van Gogh's, he upped his price to a good bit more. Lewenthal paid the price, but for "two years of agony" he could not get the picture...
...time the fire was out, eleven of the twelve murals, the works of an unknown artist of the 8th Century, had been baked to oblivion. The rich reds and greens of the originals, which the loving care of generations of monks (and recent injections of acrylic resin) had helped preserve, were gone; the delicately-draped Buddhas and elegant Bodhisattvas were only faint black outlines on the smoke-smirched plaster...