Word: martinson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blown up out of proportion in deference to the man who is now the Great Big Skipper, and yakked up out of believability by miles of comic relief, it has become a wide-screen campaign poster. One merciful antidote: smiling Cliff Robertson has been allowed by Director Leslie Martinson to play Skipper Jack with vigor, not vigah; there isn't a single hand-stabbing J.F.K. mannerism in sight...
...museum's president, Joseph B. Martinson, retired head of the coffee firm and a collector himself, acknowledges that the boundaries of folk art are hard to define. The artists range from the greatly talented Edward Hicks to a legion of traveling painters who could turn out a portrait in less than an hour for the price of $2.92. The freshness of the art. in fact, stems largely from its variety and degrees of sophistication. A wooden Columbia, all star-spangled-bannered, is a wonderfully flamboyant bit of jingoism. A large copper...