Word: kent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...state with a Speech from the Throne, the last such required speech having been read loud and clear by Edward VIII (TIME, Nov. 9). Today George VI is making rapid further progress with doctors and vocalists to overcome his defective speech (TIME, Dec. 21), and the Duke of Kent was recently pressed into service to read an overseas royal radio broadcast to New Zealand. Omens were that the whole House of Commons will loyally cooperate to avoid unpleasant subjects until after the Coronation next May 12, and the House was slated last week for such work as raising Cabinet salaries...
Bald, flute-playing Artist Rockwell Kent last week rushed excitedly into the Weyhe Gallery, his Manhattan dealers, with two rolls of scraped sealskin and a story: he had discovered the greatest of Eskimo artists, he had two examples of his work to prove...
...there is another Eskimo that can draw half as well," said Artist Kent, "I don't know of his existence. I know for a fact that nothing produced in Greenland is even comparable. Ranking with all comers he certainly is one of the foremost of artists who have drawn in the North. On more specific grounds I would cite for their special excellence his perspective, his action, his strong sense of both the pictorial and dramatic impact, and above all, the values in his comprehensive epic of Eskimo life...
...Artist Kent's protege is a 25-year-old Alaskan named George Aden Ahgupuk, better known as Twok. As a child in a mission school in northwestern Alaska he was in constant hot water with his teachers for covering valuable sheets of paper with walruses, kyacks, reindeer and seagulls, but Eskimo Twok never thought of being a professional artist until a hunting accident put him in a hospital for a year, left him crippled for life. Twok moved to Noorvik, Alaska, began drawing the daily life of his people on sheets of reindeer and sealskin parchment that he scraped...
...thirty other clubs in a two-year competition before student courts. Representatives for the taxpayers will be two members of the "Root-Pitney" law club, W. Parmer Fuller, of San Mateo, California, and Gerald H. Trautman of Cambridge. Their opponents, representing the government, will be Dwight K. Parsons, of Kent, Ohio, and Andrew S. Grey, of Philadelphia, both members of the "Pow-wow" club...