Word: kensett
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ARKANSAS' WILBUR DAIGH MILLS, 49, is the youngest chairman in the history of the tax-writing Ways & Means Committee, co-protector with Appropriations of the House's constitutional power to originate all money bills. Son of a small-town banker. Mills lives in Kensett, which by legend got its name when natives told Missouri Pacific surveyors, trying to decide where to build a station: "You ken set it hyar or you ken set it thar." Since 1939 he has represented the hill-and-dale Second District, which also boasts such place names as Morning Sun, Evening Shade and Oil Trough...
...Dead Jockey (M-G-M). "I don't know about the dead jockey, but if you want a tip on how to have an empty theater . . ."-V.W., Kensett...
...school's top painters-Cole, Asher Durand, John Frederick Kensett, Thomas H. Hinckley-were all represented in last week's New Hampshire show, for they all painted the White Mountains as well as the Catskills. Winslow Homer, one of the very few geniuses in the history of American painting, added his fellow artists to one New Hampshire scene to produce the small canvas (see cut) that was easily the best picture in the show...
...much better financially than American abstractionists do today. In 1858, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad dispatched Asher Durand and some of his colleagues in an excursion train, which stopped when any of the artists expressed a desire to sketch the view from the windows. The 600-odd canvases in John Kensett's studio brought $137,715 at auction after his death...