Word: displays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frazzled way, Independence would be happy to see him. Harry Truman had caused his home town a great deal of trouble. Zealous merchants, who had put out $3,000 to decorate Independence in splendid' Christmas trappings, fidgeted last week when the revolving display on the courthouse cupola refused to revolve. Then the lights on the town Christmas trees would not work, and the choir boys, who were to sing carols over the public-address system, turned up some discouragingly deep bassos. But Independence's worst frustration came from the President's time schedule. After 24 hours, most...
Delvaux's mysteriously out-of-place nudes earned him a growing reputation as one of Europe's finest fantasists, sold almost as fast as he could paint them. Last week the first full-dress U.S. exhibition of his buff-bare ladies was on display at a Manhattan gallery, sponsored by well-clothed U.N. General Assembly President (and Belgian Foreign Minister) Paul-Henri Spaak. By careful culling, the show bared no pubic hairs, was guaranteed not to rouse the same censorship problems that harried Delvaux's recently imported painting, Temptation of St. Anthony (TIME, Sept...
Between the acts, there was a Battle of Bands-two orchestras playing the same tune-one hot, one sweet. The orchestra's idea of le jazz hot was still in the wah-wah, funny-hat stage of the U.S. display bands of 1930. Maestros Alex Combelle and Andrea Leca were things of beauty in black ties and velvet jackets, but Combelle's gum-chewing guitarist wore a sweater with wide green and yellow horizontal stripes...
...Aaron and Tommy Drohan were the whole show in the diving from the one-metre board, while, with a wealth of talent on display, Bill MacVicar was the only one of Ulen's men who placed is more than a single individual event...
Most of the material presented in the 40 works on display in the Union is based on subjects acquired during the students' service in the armed forces. Other exhibits portray local scenes while some are distinctly surrealistic in chaster...