Word: homers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wanted: Six Divisions. On a day when Pentagon spokesmen in Washington described the Korean situation as "not serious," the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart, who was in the field, described it as not only serious but "desperate." On good flying days, U.S. and Australian fighter planes harried the enemy armor and communications, but in the rainy monsoon season, good flying days are too few. In spite of continued B-29 bombing north of the 38th parallel and effective raids on the Han River crossings, the enemy seemed to be keeping his supply lines in fair order...
Besides gleanings for the curious, there was some good art: early genre studies by Winslow Homer, William Glackens' moveing paintings of the Spanish-American War, and Thomas Eakins' The Agnew Clinic, 1889, a monumental study of an operation in an early hospital. There was even a small painting by the great French impressionist, Edgar Degas, of 19th Century Cotton Merchants. But the show's main appeal was to the ordinary American with a warm heart and a taste for a good story. It was a good bet that by the time the Corcoran closed its big cavalcade...
...against their contemporaries and followers of the last 50 years, they still ranked with the best the U.S. has produced. Two of them-Whistler and Sargent-had been polished expatriates whose works reflected London and London society with all the elegance and sheen of an opera hat. Landscapist Winslow Homer and Philadelphia Portrait Painter Thomas Eakins, who stayed at home, painted with a directness and clarity that no U.S. artist has yet surpassed...
...Senate, Republicans and Democrats snarled at each other across the Amerasia case like nervous football teams determined to fight it out through the line if it took all election season. Indiana's Homer Capehart, backed by 20 other Republican Senators, demanded that the Senate Judiciary Committee open a brand-new, full-dress investigation of the Justice Department's handling of the case in 1945. Maryland's long-jawed Millard Tydings promptly accused Capehart's team of being offside. Tydings' own special Foreign Relations subcommittee was already looking into Amerasia, he said; the Capehart resolution amounted...
...next day, Indiana's Senator Homer E. Capehart nosed into an $18.5 million RFC loan granted to Carthage Hydrocol, Inc. for construction of a synthetic gasoline plant and pipeline in Texas. Republican Stalwart Capehart found that Hydrocol's president is none other than G.O.P. National Chairman Guy George Gabrielson. Passing over the fact that RFC's loan to Hydrocol was more than matched by $21.5 million in new private capital, Capehart snapped: "I don't care whether the name is Smith, Jones or Gabrielson. They ought to practice what they preach. Do they believe...