Word: baskin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years as a teacher in little (pop. 2,500) Lakeland, Ga., Mrs. Armstrong B. Baskin, 64, never aroused anything but praise in the community. A farmer's wife, she worked hard for her $3,300 a year, was well liked both by her elementary-school pupils and by their parents. Last week Minnie Lee Baskin was out of a job. Reason: she had outraged the sensibilities of Lakeland's whites...
...drive the boys home herself. But as luck would have it, she found that her car had a flat tire. Just then, a Negro school bus drove into sight, and one of the boys, Pat Taylor, 9, sensibly pointed out that "it goes right by my house." Teacher Baskin assured the boy that she would drive him home once the tire was fixed, but since Pat seemed impatient and did not seem to mind riding with Negroes, she hailed the bus and let the boy climb...
First prize in graphic arts rightly went to Leonard Baskin for his superb "Shofar Prayer." Other awards went to William Georgenes, Jane Stouffer and Donald Kelley, the last outstanding for his "Priscilla." In sculpture, first prize went to Harold Tovish's good "Head of a Girl," with honorable mention to William Martin's striking "Stalking Bird." I liked George Aaron's "Jeremiah" and Peter Abate's "Youth and His Dreams" most...
...paper; Boris Margo, who developed a new, easy-to-work print surface of sheet cellophane dissolved in acetone; Adja Junkers, who blew woodcuts up to mural-sized proportions with his 14-ft.-long triptych in which the center panel alone used eight blocks and 56 colors. Sculptor Leon ard Baskin's Man of Peace, 1953 (see cut), displayed at Brooklyn's prizewinners' show, achieves monumental proportions in a larger-than-life-size woodcut done in austere black and white...
...Reynolds of Lowell, Mass.; John Richards 2d (Capt.) of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Robert Rittenburg of Boston, Mass.; Paul S. Rosenthal of Dorchester, Mass.; Paul S. Rosenthal of Dorchester, Mass.; Arthur G. Siler of Orinda, Cal.; Kilby P. Smith of Scituate, Mass.; Arthur A. Wills of Quincy, Mass.; Martin S. Baskin (Mgr.) of Chicago...