Word: expositioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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U. S. moppets-stimulated by Chicago's Columbian Exposition and promotional propaganda of the Youth's Companion-first chanted these immortal words on the first official Columbus Day, in 1892. For over 40 years, however, there has been no certainty who wrote them.
Sandy Calder, son of Sculptor A. Stirling Calder, gave up painting when he found that "wire, or something to twist, or tear, or bend, is an easier medium for me to think in." He has made a circus of bent-wire figures, a mobile setting for a musical work (Erik...
"Every poet, I think, ought to be something of a local poet," Coffin says, and thus he expresses the conviction that knowledge of one's subject, contact with it through personal experience, is the main guarantee of poetic inspiration. And as a local poet, he can assume, in his own...
> San Francisco's Golden Gate International Exposition had other tribulations. It needs to average 87,000 visitors a day to break even. In the three months it has been running, it has averaged only 33,610. Last week it borrowed another $750,000, bringing to $3,250,000 its...
Professor Shapley's talk followed and expanded an exposition by Dr. Bart J. Bok, assistant professor of Astronomy, of the attempt to disclose the Internal structure of the universe by work on the Milky Way. Bok is attempting to prove that the Milky Way is a rotating spiral nebula and...