Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lobby of New York's famous Music Box theater, when the new Maxwell Anderson-Kurt Weill musical play, Lost in the Stars, opens on Oct. 30, theatergoers will see an unusual exhibit of paintings. Its presence there is due to a dramatic coincidence-involving a story that appeared in TIME'S Art department on Aug. 8, and an art-loving TIME-reader, Miss Elizabeth Winston, who read the story in TIME'S Atlantic Edition while on her vacation in Paris...
...from his father. When he graduated, Ethel, through a friend, got him a job as law clerk at $8 a week in the office of Manhattan Attorney Charles Tuttle. He supplemented that by teaching law at Columbia, and began his "cram courses" for bar examinations which were to become famous in New York legal circles. Nearly 40,000 law students have taken the Medina six-weeks lectures, which he ran until 1941. Medina came out of the self-training with one of the most all-inclusive legal minds in the country...
Meyers ended the discussion by telling how a Union friend of his approached him during the Fact-Finding Board proceedings and said the Union was going to get Bloody Mary from the show "South Pacific" to mount the stand and recite the most famous line in the play, "You cheap bastards...
...there were usually 80 or 90 men in the stands on Saturday afternoons. Among them were Malcolm H. Holmes, '28, the band's present director, and Leroy Anderson '28, now a famous arranger. Holmes banged the base drum at Soldiers Field, but played the violin in the orchestra at other times...
Then Alfred Maurer fell into revolutionary company. At Gertrude and Leo Stein's famous Saturday evenings, he met some of the pioneers of modern French painting. Around Paris he caught glimpses of the work of les fauves, the "wild beasts"-Matisse, Rouault, Dufy, Derain -whose daring compositions and brilliant colors were setting French art on its ear. His own academic interiors and portraits looked drab and uninspired by comparison. In 1904, renouncing his old formal ways, he flirted with impressionism and became the first U.S. artist to follow up the experiments of les fauves...