Word: ida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago art lovers, startled by Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida, fascinated by prize-winning That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do, were proud when the Chicago Art Institute this week announced that it had bought, for Chicago's very own, Ah God-Herrings, Buoys, The Glittering...
...Ida," "That Which," "Ah God" are all painted by cheerful little grey-haired Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, who works happily in the husk of an abandoned Methodist Church in Warrenville, Ill., an hour's drive outside Chicago. All three pictures have a microscopic detail that is more real than real life, a funereal rose and lavender cast, all are of subjects which look worn and battered by eternity...
...Ida," a bluish portrait of a massive, flabby, seminude, varicose-veined prostitute primping herself before a tumbledown Victorian table with a crumpled dol lar bill on it, caused a storm of protest several years ago when it was exhibited. But art connoisseurs had to admit that its lugubrious, shadowy surfaces, which shone like crushed tinfoil, were unparalleled in modern painting...
Broadcaster of such news, and the first in the whole West to put it regularly on the air, was Mrs. Ida McNeil of Pierre's Station KGFX. Mrs. McNeil runs the only transmitter (200 watts) within a 200-mile radius of Pierre, the State capital. Her husband, Danna, a railroader on the Chicago & North Western, started it for fun in 1916. Ida took over in 1922, used the station to send out weather reports for stockmen and to let Danna know about the children when he made his run to Rapid City. She read her first hospital list...
This is not the first service to her State that Ida McNeil has performed. When she was a girl, in 1909, she designed the State flag. Now 53, she says of her career: "They tell me I've talked the longest on one station of anyone in the State...