Word: calendar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most Americans-including some who would insist that art gives them a pain-like pretty pictures on calendars. On the opposite page are reproduced three of the biggest-selling calendar pictures for 1952. All are published by the St. Paul firm of Brown & Bigelow (TIME, July 5, 1948), which supplies half of the 120 million commercial calendars made in the U.S. each year. These three paintings reflect the three most popular categories of calendar...
...Landscapes. These have the advantage of being suitable for kitchens, and of staying sunny on the darkest days. The Good Old Days is a first try at calendar art by a Hollywood scene painter named Paul Detlefsen. It owes something to Currier & Ives, and depends a good deal on memories to invest its neat detail with a breath of life...
...proposing that student organizations register their future activities on a calendar at its office, the Crimson Key has come forth with a sensible plan for promoting better scheduling of college events. With accurate calendar information, the Key aims to help groups plan their occasions more intelligently. Although certain organizations, because of their different interest areas, do not compete with each other when holding activities on the same day, some conflict is bound to arise...
...coordination. Planning at least two productions each year, they find that it is financially unfeasible to stage their fall shows before the end of the football season. But other organizations can draw advantage from the Key's effort if they develop the habit of checking with the calendar. The Crimson Key officials themselves intend to post all University functions on the calendar and plan to include the major social events of nearby colleges so that conflict on the big weekends may be avoided...
SCHOENHOF'S is featuring the calendar at $1.50, along with other Swiss imported calendars at their 1280 Massachusetts Avenue store. All are strongly mounted to make a handsome desktop ornament...