Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...church, with the permission of their bishops. The brides & grooms: thrice-married Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt Winsor, first wife of Elliott Roosevelt, and the Rev. Benedict H. Hanson of Baltimore; Isabelle W. Morrill and the Very Rev. Kirk B. O'Ferrall, ex-dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, Detroit...
...Packers. Big Steel has yet to report, but the little-steel companies were fat. Sloss-Sheffield's $872,398 net was up 92% over 1946; Detroit Steel Corp.'s $2,747,433 up 63%; American Steel Foundries' $1,951,439 up 71%; Continental Steel Corp.'s $641,454 up 39%. Only Republic Steel Corp., whose second-quarter net of $5,214,820 was only half that of the first quarter, showed the rise in costs the producers complained about. Even so, its $16 million net in six months was four times its profit in the corresponding...
...last 16 years, Detroit's Negro population has increased by 75% (to 210,000). Los Angeles' 133,000 Negro population has more than doubled since 1940. Between 1930 and 1945, New York's Negro population has increased 67% (to 547,000); Chicago's by 50% (to 350,000); San Francisco's by 741% (to 32,000). In Portland, Ore., Negroes increased from...
...murals at the Brazilian Pavilion in the 1939 New York World's Fair and in the Library of Congress, and one-man shows in Detroit and Manhattan gave him a U.S. reputation. But things have not always gone well with him at home. He painted the Via Sacra on the walls of a modern church near Belo Horizonte, which Architect Oscar Niemeyer, friend and fellow Communist, designed. The archbishop refused to consecrate the church (TIME, May 13, 1946). Says Portinari: "The priests don't like my way of expressing, sacred things. They want Virgins that look like Ingrid...
Then the blazing colors of impressionism came in, and the taste for his dimly lit, Italianate landscapes went out. Not since 1881 had Washington Allston's work been given a full showing. Two years ago, Edgar P. Richardson, director of Detroit's Institute of Arts, decided that Allston's works were "the first important landscapes of mood painted by an American artist." Richardson rounded up 66 paintings and drawings, put them on exhibition. Last week, after two months in Detroit, the Allston show opened in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts...