Word: findlay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Benjamin H. Landing, 17, of Findlay; Findlay High School...
...Nearest 20th-century equivalent to the reveries of Watteau are the paintings of a gangling, red-haired feminine exquisite, now 52, who has lived and painted in Paris for 30 years. Last week the Findlay Galleries gave Marie Laurencin her first sola show in Manhattan in five years. A cadenced critique by Vanity Fair's onetime editor, Frank Crowninshield, defended from the charge of "boudoir art" Marie Laurencin's pale, obsessive ladies, "with those undefined pools of night which are their eyes, their magnolia-soft cheeks, their plumes of periwinkle blue and lips of fadeless rose...
Charmer, The School of Paris, which was not a school but an atmosphere in which the teachers of most of the best current painters were taught, was recalled to Manhattanites by an exhibition at the Findlay Galleries of 30 paintings by Montparnassian Moise Kisling. A fiery Polish Jew, friend for 20 years of such notable scapegraces as Utrillo, 46-year-old Kisling surprised gallery-goers with his weight of opulent color and delicate draughtsmanship. Included were two nudes of Kiki, catlike Queen of the Paris models, who once called Kisling "the swellest guy in the world," now sings sailor songs...
...Liveliest White House visitor of the week was 85-year-old Mrs. Anne Howell Kennedy Findlay. During the Civil War, on the street outside her house in Hagerstown, Md., Mrs. Findlay's mother found a young Union captain wounded in the throat, took him indoors to be cared for. Mrs. Findlay, then a girl of ten, was leaning over the officer's bed when he recovered consciousness. She helped nurse him back to health. The captain was the late Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. It was at the little girl's house that Poet Oliver Wendell...
...crowd, waiting tensely for the end of the 6,150-mi. junket, burst into cheers as the Scott-Guthrie plane slid in for a landing, winner of the $20,000 first prize in 52 hr., 56 min. The celebration was suddenly stilled by the news that Pilot Findlay and one of his companions had been killed in a crash at Abercorn, near Lake Tanganyika. Capitalist Schlesinger announced that he would donate the rest of the prize money ($30,000) to the dependents of the two dead airmen...