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...school of art. In fact, any school which comes into the world shouting about revolutions and complete detachment can usually expect not to outlive its own boisterous exclamations. Nevertheless, most of the things here are not high Dada. The studies of El Lissitzky, Max Ernst, Moholy Nagy, Malewich and Hannah Hoch more often reflect a kind of experimentalism which hovers tenuously in the nether regions of design, just outside the gates of one muse or another. Every so often, of course, a Mondrian or a Klee comes along who makes something of it. Then cometh the rear guard which inevitably...

Author: By Paul W. Schwartz, | Title: Deutsche Kunst II | 4/30/1958 | See Source »

...Whose Governor Averell Harriman last week named Brooklyn Lawyer Richards W. Hannah as first head (at $17,000 a year) of the new Lottery Control Commission to boss bingo across the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Bingo! | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

...landowner of his county in Texas. He rates first not merely by virtue of wealth, but because he is the best hunter, the most responsible citizen, the man whose word commands immediate respect. Yet, at the same time, everyone suspects the truth about Wade and Hannah Hunnicutt's marriage-that he has slept with just about every other woman in the county. He has a preference for married women, and altogether too many youngsters in the town are dead ringers for Wade Hunnicutt. All this his wife Hannah knows, as well as the whittlers down on the square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New American Tragedy | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

...Cabinet member had received for review a day earlier. Leaving Vice President Nixon in charge of the meeting, the President went down the hall to witness the swearing-in of his new Civil Rights Commission. In high good humor Ike insisted on presenting Michigan State's Dr. John Hannah and his five commissioners their "diplomas," i.e., commissions neatly tied in blue ribbon. Then, in more serious vein, he invited them to pull up chairs to hear his own strong hopes for their work in racial relations and to ask questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Freezing Winds | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...retail sales climbed back to $315 million in 1957, and many furriers think the market will keep improving. One big reason for the comeback is that women are not so suspicious as they were, thanks in large part to a 1952 federal law requiring truthful labeling. Said Harvey Hannah, chief of the wool and fur division of the Federal Trade Commission: "The act has done a lot to instill consumer confidence. There was a time when a lot of people would not go near a furrier for fear of being deceived. There used to be 96 different names for rabbit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: Comeback | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

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