Word: cut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best in the show, a tempera House by the Seashore (see cut) by the University of Wisconsin's Ray Obermayr, owed an obvious debt to the two living U.S. masters: Charles Burchfield and Edward Hopper. It struck a low blue note characteristic of the exhibition as a whole. Buffalo's Hubert Raczka had painted a lonely little figure through the bars of a fire escape, called it Insignificance. The Portland Museum School's Robert Galaher had wrapped his hulking Circus Worker in a sad, smokelike haze, and Milwaukee's John Pagac had contributed a fatly photographic...
...Walker Art Center sent six paintings that demonstrated how diversely students in a progressive art school will advance. They ranged from Reginald Anderson's Figures, a spiky, thin-air abstraction, to Roland Thompson's carefully realistic Culvert. William Chaiken's patchwork Tryst at the Fountain (see cut) was painted at Manhattan's Art Students League, showed the weary sophistication that comes with spending a lot of time in big-city galleries...
...there was joy in Sea Girt, N.J. There, vacationing Comic Fred Allen, who last year lost a clear-cut decision in Hoo-perratings to the monster giveaway Stop the Music, said: "It's about time radio was taken away from the scavengers and given back to the entertainers...
Answer to Prayers? Last week, hopes were briskly and perhaps brashly fanned for a short cut in production. Science Reporter William L. Laurence of the New York Times reported in a Page One story that "The seed of an African plant holds the answer to the prayers of millions for cortisone...Strophanthus sarmentosus is a potentially unlimited source of the raw material for cortisone." This material, he said, is "more closely related to cortisone than ox bile acid, and will therefore require many fewer steps in its chemical conversion...It is 17 steps nearer to cortisone than bile acid...
Sharp Focus. In Fort Worth, police received a routine letter from Twin Falls, Idaho authorities inquiring about a suspected bad-check passer and describing her as "25, 115 Ibs., 5 ft. 5 in. She wore a low-cut dress with short skirt, making it very hard to gain a description of her facial features...