Word: kid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already in the $75,000-a-year class as a freelancer, and as art director of an advertising agency, snub-nosed Paul Rand still looks very much like the kid who spent his evenings studying commercial art at Brooklyn's Pratt Institute. He has never stopped studying, and he insists that Critic Roger Fry, Novelist André Malraux and Philosopher John Dewey have taught him a lot about the uses of art, "although I don't understand them half the time...
Three times in one practice session last week, deadeye Andy Prillip, one of Illinois' famed Whiz Kids, dribbled down the floor and then passed up an easy shot at the basket. Instead he tossed the ball to Whiz Kid Jack Smiley. Phillip explained, with a grin, "Smiley's wife and little boy are up in the balcony...
Against Pittsburgh last week the Whiz Kid guards-hefty Gene Vance and Papa Jack Smiley-bossed the backboards. Before they were replaced by substitutes, Andy Phillip hit for eight points and skinny Ken Menke got ten more. Down went Pittsburgh, 58-31, to become victim No. 3. Illinois was out to become the Big Nine's best again, but would have to get past Iowa and Wisconsin to make...
...pages. The late Captain Joseph M. Patterson guided his comics (Orphan Annie, Dick Tracy, Terry, etc.) as cunningly as his anti-Roosevelt campaigns, built a monster circulation (now 2,400.000) for his New York Daily News. William Randolph Hearst was one of the daddies of comics (his early Yellow Kid strip led to the phrase "yellow journalism"). Last week the trade paper Editor & Publisher, reporting the launching of Hearst's newest strip, Dick's Adventures in Dreamland, dipped into the year-long correspondence over it that passed between The Chief and his men, let the trade look over...
David 0. Selznick's Duel in the Sun, with all its dazzling cast and alleged $7 million cost, is nonetheless a horse opera. So are Howard Hughes's The Outlaw (which started out to be a story of Billy the Kid, but now features Jane Russell) and John Ford's handsome My Darling Clementine. Still to come: ¶ Walt Disney's Pecos Bill, another mixture of cartooning and live action, with Roy Rogers and horse, Trigger. ¶Winchester 73, Walter Wanger's oater-with-psychology, starring Joan Bennett. ¶| Frank Capra's Pioneer Woman...