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Last week President Grover Aloysius Whalen of the New York World's Fair Corporation was constrained to do some agile explaining. When he was all through, the status of the fine arts at the New York World's Fair had been greatly clarified, but it looked as if Mr. Whalen was still on the spot...
...this first bean-spilling, gardenia-loving Grover Whalen replied that the Fair Corporation could not provide safe housing for a costly art exhibition unless it erected a permanent, fireproof building, unlike the temporary structures planned for the Fair. Instead of this, he said, arrangements were being made with the Metropolitan Museum (eight miles from the fair grounds) "and other like institutions" to hold exhibitions presumably like Chicago's. This message, which also appeared in the Post, was brought to the regular meeting between the artists' representatives and the Fair Board of Design. Mr. Manship's fellow artists...
Soon a second, more elaborate announcement from Grover Aloysius Whalen reached Manhattan city desks. Remembering what he had not remembered before, Mr. Whalen called attention to "a major art project for the New York World's Fair of 1939" involving a Community Arts Centre, where workers in the arts will display the processes of painting, sculpture and printing. "Through these 'arts in production'," said Mr. Whalen, "we hope to bring home to the average man that a work of art is not something conceived on Olympus but is produced by people very much like himself...
...vote of the members of the Baseball Writers Association, who have been given the task of choosing players whose careers ended some time between 1900 and the year of election; 2) selection by a committee of oldsters, who choose 19th Century heroes. In this year's ballot, Grover Cleveland Alexander was the only player who received enough votes to qualify. Of 262 votes he received...
...hero in the third inning may look like a bum in the seventh-was last week swapping tales with local barflies in the Empire Hotel at Springfield, Ill., when he was informed of his fortunate rescue from obscurity. One of the most effective right-handed pitchers of all time, Grover Cleveland ("Old Pete") Alexander, now 50, could review a career that reached its third inning in the 1926 World Series (between the Cardinals and Yankees) when, after a night of carousing in celebration of two victories for the Cardinals, he was called from the bullpen at the crucial point...