Word: artists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ready for mounting in Courtroom No. 4 of the Federal court & postoffice building at Newark. N. J. was a two-panel mural by 26-year-old Artist Tanner M. Clark of Somerville. N. J.. who devoted two and one-half years and 500 egg yolks* to depicting the role of courts in protecting children. One of his panels portrayed happy schoolboys at play; the other, a factory machine slicing off a working girl's hand...
Said the Judge in a terse memorandum explaining his protest to the U. S. Treasury (which had paid Artist Clark $800 of $2,000 due him): "The work ... is exceptionally well done and there are many appropriate places where such murals might be displayed. . . . [But] jurors should not have their minds affected by exhibits not legally admitted in evidence. . . . The mural depicting the injury . . . would be referred to by counsel [in accident cases] ... as depicting pain, anguish and sorrow...
...People, a radio program which sells Sanka Coffee, is anybody's and everybody's soapbox. Since radio's No. 1 schmalz*artist, Phillips Lord (Seth Parker), concocted it more than two years ago, about 1,000 human odds and ends have said their pieces during its half-hour broadcasts. An assorted few: Eleanor Roosevelt, Battling Nelson, Don Budge, Mrs. Dutch Schultz, the postmaster of Santa Claus, Ind., Tom Mooney...
...good Navigator and of moral worth." Gunner Meyers also had the recorder's instinct. His 28 watercolor drawings, virtually the only pictorial record of the war in California, are a favorite possession of Navy-lover Franklin D. Roosevelt. In one of them, Bombardment of Guaymas (see cut). Artist Meyers showed himself firing the middle...
...heart of the South as it is possible to get-in Oxford, Miss., a county seat of 2,890 people, 62 miles southeast of Memphis. Historically speaking, nothing much has happened to Oxford since the Yankees burned it 75 years ago. It has a courthouse square, which Mississippi-born Artist John McCrady painted in Town Square (see cut). It has its Confederate monument on which a soldier stands stonily at ease. It has its old families and old legends, its tireless political disputes, its pleasant wooden dwellings, nice lawns, and some of the softest Southern accents in the South...