Word: californianism
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...chief actor in this story-a gaunt, red-haired Californian whose pen name is Harold Maine-last week published his autobiography (If a Man Be Mad, Doubleday; $3). It is a sobering account, not only of a drunkard's inner agonies, but of U.S. mental hospitals...
Dewitt Peters, a Californian who had moved to Port-au-Prince for his health, started Haiti's first art school three years ago, just to make himself useful. As soon as his Centre d'Art opened its doors, self-taught painters came crowding happily in for instruction. Peters stared at their pink, purple, pale green and yellow pictures of murders and bouquets (mostly painted with furniture enamel on scraps of cardboard), decided the best he could do for such talented pupils was to supply them with materials and let them paint...
...rock-solid study of a train stalled in a flood; Sydney Laufman's impressionistic Road in the Woods, which looked as though it had been daubed on with dirty cotton; Gladys Rockmore Davis' sugar-sweet ballet painting, Pink Tights. Somehow the jury agreed that an almost unknown Californian named Boris Deutsch deserved the $2,500 first prize-for his ragged, muddy-colored canvas of four weird, grief-crazed creatures with a dead child...
...practice Gary Middlecoff, an Army dentist who is regarded by golf's wise man, Walter Hagen, as "potentially the best hitter of the ball I've ever seen, pros not excepted." The finalists were tall Ted Bishop, a reformed pro* from Dedham, Mass., and a sawed-off Californian with a comic-strip name, Smiley Quick...
...finals, Pauline sailed into fellow-Californian Brough, with Queen Mary and Prime Minister Clement Attlee looking on. She won, 6-2, 6-4. The doubles were a triple triumph for California...