Word: logs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Warren Wheelock was building himself a log cabin in the North Carolina mountains. He needed a pair of andirons. That was not too hard for a commercial artist who had designed glass ovenware, safety razors and compacts. He took two sticks of oak and whittled out a dachshund (for casting into iron). He liked his firedog so much that he kept on whittling, and by 1922 he was a full-fledged sculptor. On display in Manhattan's Robinson Galleries last week went a Wheelock retrospective show that started with the dachshund andiron, ended in 1940 with a crisp, stylized...
Isolated from the world, the Navajos have no paved roads, no movies, no electric lights, dwell in mud-&-log hogans, seldom leave their reservation. Because they have no cows, Navajo squaws nurse children many months after birth. Nearly three-quarters of the Navajos speak no English. In the last few years, the U. S. Office of Indian Affairs has built more than 40 Navajo schools, sent out about 150 young women teachers. To drum up business, the teachers invited squaws to their schoolhouses for hair-washing parties (the schools have pumps, a luxury in the arid Navajo country), then persuaded...
Last week the food wagons rolled 24 hours a day, because the machine-tool industry is in mid-boom. Few of its 350 plants do not work around the clock. Big toolmen say in a spirit of cheerful frustration: "We can't make a dent on the back-log." The industry makes possible modern assembly lines-it makes the machines that make machinery, machines that make parts so accurately that they can be used interchangeably in any one of a series of airplanes, automobiles, cannons, egg beaters. When a manufacturer develops a new model or expands his productive capacity...
...American but post-Impressionist French were the canvases of agile, sensitive James Chapin up to 1924. Cézanne was his idol. That year he left Greenwich Village, took a walking trip in the hills of northern New Jersey. There he found a two-room log cabin, decided it would be a quiet place to paint. He rented it for $4 a month from the Marvins, a tightfisted, hard-working farm family...
...Artist Chapin is no repeater of formulas. In 1929 he left his log cabin and went back to Manhattan. His brush has since touched many another phase of U. S. life-touts, lobster fishermen, subways, baseball players, blues singers, lime kilns, Utah strawstacks. Sometimes his paintings are crisp and tight, sometimes loose and fluid. They are always vital. At 53, an art teacher one day a week at the Pennsylvania Academy, James Chapin is still undogmatic. "We are all students together," says he. "I'm trying to learn how to paint...