Word: barker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Gardner Barker...
Winded. In Downing, Mo., John Barker celebrated his 100th birthday with a two-mile hike, did all right except once: the wind blew him down...
George Leverett Barker...
...Charles Abner Barker Jr., 52, the $81,000-a-year vice president and treasurer...
...were tempted with $4,000 in cash prizes-$800 more than Carnegie offers. The jury, imported from New York, included Juliana Force, doughty duenna of Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art, and two divergent painters of Manhattan life: Reginald Marsh, who paints it like a carnival barker, and Raphael Soyer, who paints it like a soft-hearted social worker. As happens with artist-dominated juries, the prizes at Chicago's Art Institute went to technically excellent paintings. Artists, who know about means, apparently care less about each others' ends...