Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long in advance His Majesty's Government chose to make this epochal change on April Fools' Day. Not thousands but millions of the Indian people rose that morning last week to don black armbands and break out black flags and bunting...
...able Painter Laufman, all credit for his Altman prizewinning landscape The Farm. TIME lacked space to report both awards, considered Adman-Artist Charles Stafford Duncan's Girl in Black more newsworthy...
...work, Defence of Madrid, the siege of which still rages, written by the London News Chronicle's, civil war Correspondent Geoffrey Cox, a warm Communist sympathizer and a fairly objective reporter. Merrily he writes of a Madrid midnight spree with police of the present regime in a "black, swift, open Mercédès-Benz" which he thinks must once have "belonged to a millionaire." The driver "had nearly half a bottle [of] John Haig [whiskey], drinking it off like wine. . . .You know what this car is for-to shoot down Fascist snipers. . . . For half an hour...
...beyond, the studio is devoted entirely to easels, paint brushes, and 20th Century "nonfigurative" sculpture and paintings, including some of Artist Gallatin's recent works. Surrounded by this welter of modern art, there appears a strange blob of fused glass, carefully mounted on a square pedestal of lustrous black stone. "They're saucers," explains Artist Gallatin, "melted in a fire. I found them in the ruins of a summer hotel in Lenox, Mass. The form is most suggestive...
...three weeks, syndicate her enthusiastic impressions. Winner is one Georgia Smith (Shirley Ross) of Birch Falls, Iowa, who wants romance not pineapple. Imperial Pineapple orders Tony to provide it. When crooning fails, he stages a mock kidnapping by the natives, who accuse the "Pineapple Girl" of stealing the black pearl which keeps their volcano quiet. The kanakas carry the two men, Miss Smith and her loud companion (Martha Raye) to an isolated island to appease the erupting volcano. Miss Smith finds romance, to the vast relief of Imperial Pineapple...