Word: mariners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...under the wing of the arch-conservative Metropolitan) honored the native sons who had brought the principles of Paris back to Manhattan, and had made them stick. In an exhibition called "Pioneers of Modern Art in America," it showed the 1908-22 works of Karfiol, Weber, Demuth, Sheeler, Marin, Hartley, and-surprisingly enough-Thomas Hart Benton...
Died. Paul Valéry, 73, famed French poet and philosopher, successor of Anatole France to the French Academy in 1925; of a heart ailment; in Paris. His infrequent, esoteric works (La Jeune Parque, Le Cimetière Marin, Varétés I, II, III, IV) brought from his distinguished colleagues high acclaim, from lesser intellectuals charges of obscure pomposity, from himself the admission, "I am a difficult author - it is my kind of beauty...
...century U.S. pictures, the collection included : Winslow Homer's Sunflower Pickaninny, Sargent's portrait of Joe Jefferson as Rip van Winkle, Whistler's Red Rosalie of Lyme Regis, George Luks's Plaza Cabbie, George Bellows' Sea Spume, canvases by John Sloane, Marsden Hartley, John Marin...
...their tankers after Mt. Tamalpais (pronounced tam-el-pie'-iss), in whose shadow they work. The Navy said no. Reason: Navy regulations say that oilers shall be named after rivers, not mountains. The workers then took a leaf out of the Navy notebook. They persuaded the Marin County Board of Supervisors to christen an unnamed creek Tamalpais. Last week the Navy stiffly notified the yard that it was all right to name their oiler S.S. Tamalpais -after the stream...
...clear afternoon you can see the wide sweep of the Bay, from the Marin hills to the ship-clogged docks of the Embarcadero, watch great grey convoys moving out the Golden Gate. At night city lights gleam far below, the first fighting men have seen in many months...