Word: benton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...20th century America, fashions in art have altered just as often and drastically as fashions in women's dress. Cocks of the walk in the 1930s were three Midwestern artists who are scarcely mentioned today: Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton. Their paintings (opposite and overleaf), included in a current retrospective show at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, are nostalgic reminders of a vanished era in recent U.S. history...
Married. Gordon Evans Dean, 47, who retired last June after almost three years as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission to become an executive of Lehman Bros.. Manhattan investment bankers; and Mary Benton Gore, 33, daughter of a Washington real estate man and cousin of Tennessee's Senator Albert Gore; he for the second time (his first marriage ended in divorce in September), she for the first; in Potomac...
...effect. It is easy to imagine a group of academic people or civil servants sitting about in the hot summer of 1953 and swapping stories about who got fired from the Voice of America because he subscribed to the Nation, and how So-and-So was not rehired at Benton College because his wife' had once joined the League of Women Shoppers-each capping the other's whopper of the reactionary menace. What is the consequence? A stiffening of spines? A clearing of the mind and will for action? I doubt it ... Intellectuals who . . . choose to regard themselves...
...Hall Johnson Choir and did her portrait (as Ruby Greene-absent-minded Painter Chapin misspelled her name-she now has a small part in the Manhattan revival of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess). His work is as clearly in the American grain as that of Thomas Benton and Grant Wood, and happily free of both Benton's swagger and Wood's snigger...
Died. Mary Stollard-Purnell, 91, widow of "King" Benjamin Purnell, founder of the bewhiskered, ball-playing House of David, whose followers claimed to be descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel;† near Shiloh, the religious cult's realm, in Benton Harbor, Mich. After "King" Benjamin died in 1927, while appealing his famed conviction on morals charges, the House of David became a house divided. "Queen" Mary got half of its several-hundred-thousand-dollar property, gathered 200 loyal followers and established a new colony, where she awaited the millennium by supervising the colony's dairy farms...