Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...collector before he became an artist. His introduction to art came via a vaudeville act in which he drew chalk portraits of people in the audience on a blackboard. He went to art school and became a commercial artist-a field in which he is remembered for the still life portraits he did in the Jello ads. In 1943 he began doing covers for TIME in addition to his other work...
...Testament stories were done just like TIME cover portraits, according to Rowe. There was one difference, however, and "it really made me appreciate the help that TIME gives its artists. TIME gives you sufficient photographs of the cover subject, a physical description of him, research into his life and character, and even an idea of how to do the cover. On the Old Testament assignment I had to start from scratch. I had to interpret the figures myself from the clues given in the stories...
...standards of life being raised," Dr. Nourse said dryly, "... when a great labor organization sees the current situation as 'the occasion for a reduction in hours of work'... or when the czar of coal orders a three-day week with full pay . . . and when pensions at 60 are demanded for a population steadily becoming longer lived...
...happy either when I see Government slipping back into deficits as a way of life in a period when production and employment are high...
Said Jawaharlal Nehru: "Sometimes when there are no new experiences, time seems to stop." Then, in wry reference to his years in British jails, he added: "And I have had this experience of time stopping for months and years in my life...