Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long a foe of the Curry-Benton-Wood school of Midwest realism, barrel-chested Painter Carroll declares: "It gives us a view of American life through a knothole in a backhouse door." Like the late great Pierre Auguste Renoir, whom six wars failed to swerve from his preoccupation with female breasts and buttocks, John Carroll prefers women to barns, feels that good art is seldom inspired by current events or political ideas. A painter's job, he believes, is to idealize his subjects. "If I wanted to paint a picnic scene," he says, "instead of showing a picnic site...
...Squat, barrel-chested, Norwegian-born Bernt Balchen was one of the great U.S. peacetime heroes. He began flying more than 20 years ago, piloted Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd across the Atlantic in 1927 and over the South Pole in 1929. Last week Bernt Balchen, now a 42-year-old U.S. Army colonel, was back in a hero's role again-this time in barren, ice-capped Greenland...
...when Davison plays cornet out of the side of his mouth, with's wonderful husky flavor like Berigan or Spanier. Not when PeeWee chortles his notes sometimes with an amazingly dirty tone and sometimes with a tone like molten silver. Not when Gene Schracder bangs out a fine barrel-house piano...
...Coast college presidents warned that "unless careful plans are made and put in operation, the reservoir of competent students will be exhausted by draining them off prematurely into the armed forces. The reservoir of specialists has been so dangerously drained that we are now scraping the bottom of the barrel." Only clear directives from Washington can keep the barrel filled...
...railroads expect to hike their oil deliveries to the rationed East Coast another big notch this week to more than 800,000 barrels a day. Before fall they hope to cross the 1,000,000-barrel mark. That would mean rolling each of 62,000-odd tank cars close to 500 miles a day, far faster than the railroads ever highballed freight before...