Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exhibit was assembled for the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, mostly from the Kunsthaus in Zurich. After New York, the 64-picture Fuseli show will go to Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis and Baltimore. Most of the pictures have an extravagant, stagelike quality; men and women gesture and posture elaborately, as in The Witches Show Macbeth Banquo's Ghost. Macbeth, a heroic, anatomically detailed nude, holds an outstretched hand against the apparition conjured up by the three hags. There are also a few amorous scenes, such as The Kiss, in which the lovers' bodies are passionately contorted, suggestive...
When Junior impressionistically draws a horse in bright reds, Mother will chide: "Everybody knows that horses aren't red, dear. Why don't you paint brown horses?" That attitude is all wrong, thinks William McGonagle, of the Detroit Institute of Arts, who runs art workshops for children. Before he could really teach the youngsters, McGonagle decided two years ago, he would have to educate their par-"ents: he invited mothers and fathers to come along and study art with the kids. This week, completing his third "Family Workshop," in which parents painted, drew and sculpted alongside their grade...
HIGHWAY construction in the 48 states during fiscal 1955 will get the biggest boost in history from the U.S. Government. Grand total planned for such projects as expressways in New York, Philadelphia, Detroit and Chicago: $555 million...
...well last week at the Fruehauf Trailer Co. of Detroit, the biggest U.S. manufacturer of truck-trailers (1953 sales: some $200 million). President Roy Fruehauf, 45, and his brother Harvey, 60, the company's founder and board chairman (at an estimated $150,000 a year) had had a falling out and were battling for control of the company...
Unappeased by this sop, Harvey looked around for somebody who could help him fight back at brother Roy. The man he found was George J. Kolowich, head of the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co., a banker who went to jail in 1933 for embezzlement, but who has since made a fortune in real estate and trucking. Last July Kolowich bought Harvey's 9% stock interest in Fruehauf, went to work to unseat Roy as president of the company...