Word: homers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...single insects, published about the time of World War I. This week the publication of The Insect World of J. Henri Fabre (Edited by Edwin Way Teale; Dodd, Mead, $3.50) gave English-speaking readers their first full view of the patient Provengal scientist whom Victor Hugo called "The Homer of the Insects...
...last week, the Saturday Review of Literature (circ. 92,000) rounded up a literary team of heavy hitters led by Robert Sherwood, John P. Marquand, Lewis Gannett, Christopher Morley, Maxwell Anderson. They obligingly tried to knock the cover off the ball, but it was SRL that slugged out the homer, circulation-wise. Even at the new price of 20?, up a nickel, it sold out a record press run of 150,000 copies in three days. Then it ran off another 10,000 copies, and contracted with a publisher to bring out the star-studded issue as a book...
...raiding CBS) launched a female counterattack with The Ethel Merman Show (Sun. 9:30 p.m., E.D.T.). The program's tenuous story line has dark, bouncy, 41-year-old Ethel Merman, ably assisted by ex-Juvenile Star Leon Janney, trying to sell a new revue to a somnolent backer-Homer Tubbs, the Syracuse floor-mop king...
...artists stuck close to home for their subject matter, they had traveled far afield for their techniques. Like many a contemporary European and American painter, most of them had obviously been influenced by the Impressionists, by the simplified landscapes of Gauguin, and by such far-off painters as Winslow Homer. Among the more outstanding exhibitors were amateur Archeologist-Teacher Walter Battiss, whose paintings of grazing animals and intrepid hunters were deliberately patterned on prehistoric Bushman drawings, and ex-Medical Corpsman Alexis Preller, who combined something of the lurid colors and slick forms of the Mexican muralists with the subject-matter...
Died. Walter Miller, 85, classical scholar, longtime dean of the University of Missouri Graduate School, whose 1944 translation (with William Benjamin Smith) of Homer's Iliad into dactylic hexameter was hailed as "a triumph of ingenuity"; in Columbia...