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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gallerygoers inspecting the 81 paintings could plot Alfred Maurer's uneasy and significant course through the first stormy years of this century. Starting as a cigar and soap-label designer in the '90s, Alfy decided by the age of 30 that art was more important than a good living; he lit out for Paris. Soon he was painting competent, easy-to-take hybrids of Sargent and Whistler, and with them winning prizes and acclaim. With An Arrangement, a low-keyed study of a girl in shirtwaist and skirt kneeling on an oriental carpet, he pulled down the fattest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Uneasy Pioneer | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...shows he produces. The Puerto Rican exemptions run until 1959 and, as long as he is resident in the islands, he appears to be safe from the U.S. tax collectors. Gardner resents the imputation that he is a tax dodger. "It's just a hell of a good business opportunity," he explains. "I want to make pictures and I came here because they're cheaper to make in Puerto Rico than anywhere else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Call of the Islands | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...fell" into her good fortune, as she says, it was partly because Maureen pushed her. While still at Illinois' Rosary College, Maureen landed a job as a teenage columnist with the Chicago Tribune, handed it down 4½ years ago to her kid sister. Chi-Chi has tripled the number of papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: On the Solid Side | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...bath and a double orange juice at 8 a.m., ends at the i a.m. curfew her mother usually succeeds in enforcing. Her column, seldom more than an hour's work, is larded with teen talk (e.g., "beau boy," "corner casbah," "coosome twosome"). Sandwiched in between chit-chat about good grooming, fads and fashions and "date data" is a thick slice of advice. Samples: "How are you going to avoid necking? . . . Simply keep away from the situations that . . . send you into a romantic mood [such as parking] on the shoreline . . . Unless you're absolutely sure how much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: On the Solid Side | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...wreck and disaster. Last week the city desk sent 56-year-old Photographer Fineberg out on a routine job, a mock invasion of South Boston by the U.S. Marines. As he watched them land on a beach, Moe Fineberg told a friendly Globe rival, "That ought to make a good picture." Seconds later, when a projectile exploded in a nearby mortar, a flying chunk of metal hit Photographer Fineberg in the head and killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Good Picture | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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