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...show at the College Union, lectured on art to farm boys in agriculture courses, went on field trips with Dean Chris Christensen of the College. His face-cracking, cherubic grin and piping voice made him popular with Wisconsin students. Question: How did all this affect the painting of a Kansan who six years ago put Kansas on the U. S. artistic...
...Whiting Jr. of the Magazine of Art and TIME Inc.'s President Henry R. Luce. Without waiting on ceremony, the jury had previously awarded a "fellowship" to Artist Grant Wood for a set of illustrations to Main Street. Artist Wood's work, like that of Missourian Benton, Kansan Curry and New Yorkers Marsh & Poor, is for the Limited Editions Club members only...
Executive Director of all Life Camps since 1925 is Dr. Lloyd Burgess Sharp, a 42-year-old Kansan. The covered wagon idea is his, as well as the broad educational aims of the camps. He started life as a farm boy, went to Kansas State Teachers' College, served in the Navy during the World War. After graduate work at Columbia University, and research for the New York City Board of Education, he joined Life Camps armed with a complete plan of reorganization. Dr. Sharp, who describes himself as the father of a Girl Scout, considers his job only half...
Advising Governor Landon on agricultural matters is Earl Howard Taylor, a Kansan, who left the University of Nebraska in 1913 to take a newspaper job. Sixteen years an associate editor of The Cattle Gentleman, he is Chi Phi's most distinguished authority on rural life and the farmer...
...opened the banks . . . ended the depression . . . restored wages." In short, the "man of the peepul." On the other hand, the waitresses almost unanimously were for Alf, feeling that he "would end the depression . . . restore wages . . . lower the cost of living." While the Kansan polled almost 98% of the waitresses vote, still many other menu handlers shly admitted a preference for the virile tactics of "Break It Up" Apted, head of the Yard Police...