Word: inspectors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beginning tomorrow official federal insignia will be given out to all members of the Harvard ARP who have completed an air raid warden course, according to an announcement made yesterday by Henry Chauncey, as Assistant Dean of Harvard College and Chief Inspector of Harvard's ARP organization...
Greatest amateur painter who ever lived, a retired French customs inspector named Henri Rousseau, had his biggest U.S. exhibition ever, at the Chicago Art Institute last fortnight. In Manhattan, 30 men & women who painted for fun in their spare time will have their works elaborately hung this week at the Marie Harriman Gallery. A connoisseur of amateur painting named Sidney Janis has written a solemn 236-page book about them.* All these amateurs had one thing in common: they had learned painting the hard way, by laboriously teaching themselves...
...Rousseau persisted. By 1907 the world had begun to acclaim him as one of the most important of modern French artists, and painters who had once laughed at him were trying to forget their education and paint like Rousseau. At this tribute Customs Inspector Rousseau, who always considered himself a realistic painter, was not the least bit surprised. Remarked he, demurely, to famed Modern Artist Pablo Picasso: "We two are the greatest painters of our time; you in the Egyptian style, myself in the modern...
...kept yelling." Mr. Morgan decided that the time had come. He handed over his resignation. LaGuardia snapped it up. Shouting, "La commedia è finita!,"* opera-loving Fiorello waved Mr. Morgan goodby, threw Mr. Morgan's secretary out after him and demoted Mr. Morgan's chief inspector. Gritted Mr. Morgan: "A complete and utter outrage...
MURDER WITH YOUR MALTED-Jerome Barry-Crime Club ($2). An outbreak of food and soda poisoning in a Manhattan drugstore drives the young owners almost frantic until a police inspector sets a trap that catches the killer. Soda-fountain argot and wisecracking Broadway dialogue add zest to the well-tangled plot...