Word: grass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the big-time grass-court tournaments this summer, solemn, steady Don McNeill, an honor student at Kenyon College, was overshadowed by long-legged, happy-go-lucky Frank Kovacs, a California comet whose spectacular shots and silly monkeyshines made him a favorite with the galleries. But last week, in the National Singles at Forest Hills, L. I., Don McNeill came into...
Walter Whitman Jr., the gusty, grey poet of Brooklyn, N.Y., poured his "barbaric yawp" over the world in bushels of verse which he called Leaves of Grass. Last week Manhattan's Associated American Artists' Galleries put on view ten paintings, 20 drawings commissioned by the Book-of-the-Month Club for a $5 edition of Leaves of Grass. The illustrations were made by Lewis C. Daniel, 38, a tall, rangy, black-haired artist and teacher at Cooper Union who looks something like the men Walt Whitman apostrophized...
Artist Daniel warmed up on Walt by making 14 etchings for Song of the Open Road, lettering the text on copperplates for a limited edition which sold for $150 a copy. His Leaves of Grass illustrations he painted in oil, and drew with a greasy lithographer's crayon, on paper. Full of movement, their swirling designs bursting with life, Daniel's drawings would probably have pleased Walt Whitman. The bearded poet appeared in some of the pictures, striding along, flying through the air, loafing and inviting his soul. Salut au Monde! (see cut) showed him crying...
Since the outbreak of World War II, a hearty old Londoner named J. R. B. Branson has urged his countrymen to eat grass, save food supplies (TIME, July 1). Last week British papers published the sad fate of a zealous grass-eater, one John William Bloomfield, 60, of Harleston, Stowmarket, Suffolk. Despite the pleas of his wife, Bloomfield persisted in browsing on the village green. Finally, after stuffing himself, was taken with violent bellyache, was rushed to a hospital. He died soon afterward. Coroner's verdict: "death by misadventure...
...lean, loquacious man, with a slight British accent and a portable recording apparatus. Grey-haired Arthur Edward Satherly is paymaster, musical coach, father confessor to the blues singers, hillbilly fiddlers, guitar-strummers, jug-players, washboard-slappers who make Columbia's Okeh* records by the dozen. In this grass-roots musical field, only Decca competes with Columbia. Decca's hillbilly man is David Kapp...