Word: bedroomed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Politicians & Politasters. Not all the activity is in Minneapolis. In Ohio last week, Earl Hart was energetically directing the primary campaign from a parlor-bedroom in Cleveland's Carter Hotel. A slight, intense man with a palm-of-the-hand knowledge of Ohio politics, Hart was-campaign manager for Senator Harold Burton in 1940, for Ohio's Governor Thomas Herbert in 1946. Eastern headquarters in New York's Sheraton Hotel is headed by an affluent New Jersey lawyer named Amos Peaslee. In Philadelphia, Jay Cooke, great-grandson of the Civil War financier and a onetime G.O.P. candidate...
...Life. When away from the Executive Mansion in Albany, he relaxes on his 486-acre farm at Pawling, 50 miles north of Manhattan. For exercise, he has turned from tennis to golf (he has broken 90); he plays softball with his sons and does setting-up exercises in his bedroom. For recreation, he reads (mainly history, biography and thrillers), occasionally plays penny-ante poker, drinks moderately, sings duets with his wife...
...never leaves his house except for a short stroll in the garden after lunch. Illness has not dulled his appetite for life or for work. His blue eyes twinkle youthfully behind his thick glasses; his snowy little beard, jollity and industriousness make him seem something like Santa Claus. His bedroom and studio are both brighter than any toyshop...
...iron bedstead takes up most of the space in Matisse's bedroom, where he spends his afternoons drawing and making cutouts on a breakfast tray. At either side of the bed is a revolving table with drawers printed in chalk, "Pencils," "Pens," "Scissors," "Paper...
Abstractions made of pinned scraps of colored paper (see cuts) cover the bedroom walls. To the hasty eye, they might seem as inconsequential as a game, but Matisse himself is deeply proud of them. "Only when one has reached complete maturity and mastery of color," he explains, "is it possible to do anything like these. They might be compared to direct carving in sculpture-the same thing accomplished in color that Michelangelo did in stone. They are the result of my long career...