Word: autumns
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...lifted and a sharp autumn wind whistled past the skyscrapers, quickening the pulse of the city. In the Navy Yard in Brooklyn lay the spanking new carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt, ready for a presidential commissioning. Across Manhattan, in the brackish waters of the Hudson, an impressive fraction of the U.S. fleet rode at anchor, ready for a presidential review. There would be a parade for Harry Truman up Fifth Avenue, past the flags and the glittering shop windows. He would make a speech before hundreds of thousands on an open meadow in Central Park...
...they do every autumn, the hardy fishermen of little West Pubnico last week climbed into their boats and chugged away to the Bay of Fundy to reap a harvest of scallops. Behind them, on a mile-wide neck of land in the quiet Acadian country of Nova Scotia, they left one of the most remarkable villages in North America...
When this year's Autumn Salon opened in Paris, 30,000 people crowded in the first day. Nowhere else in the world does art mean so much to so many. And no where else do so many artists owe so much to so few. A thousand painters were exhibited in the show; most of them were followers of the three grand old masters of modern art, Matisse (76), Picasso (64) and Braque (63). The exhibition crackled with cubistic beefsteaks, sparkled with brokenly abstract wine bottles, and blazed with serried riots of bright colors, explosively combined...
...Master Braque's Interior, one of the hits of the Autumn Salon, was a solemn rectangle of silence in the general, uproar of the show. Painted almost entirely in black and grey, with a few dabs of orange, its solid, weighty strength made some of the gayer pictures look thin and forced. Braque has been living in unapproachable solitude for the past few years...
...late autumn of 1945 there were still disturbing inconveniences and uncertainties. Coal was scarce and in the cities firewood was almost unobtainable. Strikes were spreading. Management, resentful of Government controls, was beginning to resist. What was more, before winter's end there would surely be other frightening reconversion humps for the Dominion to climb. Yet Canada, celebrating Thanksgiving Day* last week, found plenty to be thankful...