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...proved that subjective moderns need not be stultified by the task of painting theme pictures. The French, it appeared, were still champs: no U.S. entry could match the tonal subtlety of the winter landscapes by France's Christian Caillard and Roger Chapelain-Midy, or the sophistication of Oscar Dominguez' half-abstract Christmas tree, with its candles that cast pointed black shadows from each glowing wick, or the wit of Gustave Singier's bright blue abstraction, Noel Provencal, which looked as mindlessly gay and involved as a game of pick-up-sticks. What the U.S. entrants lacked...
...Abstractionist Oscar Dominguez has both. His big, somber Composition owed an obvious debt to his good friend and fellow Spaniard Picasso, but its loony, mountainous melee of animals and things was Dominguez' own, a jumble of the sort one sees at the moment of going to sleep or awakening, transformed and made monumental by the order and clarity of the painter's arrangement. A huge, expansive man whose rolling eyes and fierce mustache make him look like the villain in a melodrama, Dominguez may well become a new hero in French...
...siege of the Alcazar in Spain's preview of World War II. The grenade killed four people, but not General Varela. He demanded Serrano's scalp and the execution of the Falangistas involved. (A Madrid dispatch broadcast from Germany last week reported that one Juan José Dominguez was executed "for throwing hand grenades...
Harris Hammond earns $20,000 per year, aside from the income from his inheritance. He is president of Dominguez Oil Fields Co. which earned $2,000,000 last year, and of Laughlin Filter Corp., a small New Jersey company which manufactures centrifuges. In 1928 Mr. Hammond and Philadelphia's Anthony Joseph Drexel ("Tony") Diddle Jr. were among the directors of Acoustic Products Co., which later became Sonora Products Corp. of America. When Sonora went bankrupt and Irving Trust Co. became its receiver, that Manhattan bank charged that Sonora's directors had personally used an option owned...
...pilot. No. 1 Pilot. Son of a hardware man, Edwin Musick was born in St. Louis in 1894. His parents moved to California when he was 9. Young Edwin had progressed as far as the second year in a Los Angeles high school when he went to watch the Dominguez air races. Enthralled, he and his friends attempted to build a plane, a flimsy contraption which got nine feet, off the ground, pancaked quietly into a puddle. "Ed" Musick retained his absorption in aviation, has engaged in nothing else since. Quitting high school, he took a commercial flying course...