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Critics were thunderstruck to learn that the $500 Palmer Prize for marine painting went to one Hayley Lever of Caldwell, N.J. and not to that persistent and popular sea painter, Frederick Waugh (TIME, Dec. 17, 1934 et seq.). Possibly the fact that Artist Waugh's entry entitled Ante Meridian (the one with the surf on the right) had already won one prize last December may have affected the judges...
...Woods, the Krolls and the Speichers all looked disdainfully down their artistic noses at Oldster Waugh (pronounced Waw). Last week for the second successive year Artist Waugh won the $200 prize for the most popular painting at the Carnegie International Exhibition in Pittsburgh. This award went to his Ante Meridian not on the say-so of any highbrow judges but by a majority vote of the 116,000 plain people who had visited the Carnegie show since October...
Frederick Waugh won the 1934 Popular Prize at Pittsburgh with another marine picture called Tropic Sea (TIME, Dec. 17). Still another Waugh seascape entitled Post Meridian took the $500 Palmer Prize for marine painting at last spring's National Academy. In Chicago last month bewildered Mrs. Frank Logan, wife of the Art Institute's honorary president, picked a fourth Waugh seascape as the sort of picture she really liked, in contrast to the sarcastic canvas that had been awarded her $500 prize (TIME, Nov. 18). Artist Waugh, spry at 74, produces about 75 canvases a year. The Grand...
Four times a year out in the Pacific Ocean, near the 180th Meridian, TIME goes regularly to Midway Island, when the little cable ship Dickinson journeys there with supplies for the cable station...
...June 27 after 23 days aloft they broke the official record of 553½ hr. set by Brothers John & Kenneth Hunter at Chicago five years ago, some 25,000 people jammed Meridian Municipal Airport to cheer them on. In carnival spirit, the crowd danced at the airport all night, whooped at the announcement that the field would henceforth be known as Key Airport. Ablaze with civic pride, the Chamber of Commerce promised the Brothers Key $100 for each & every day they stayed aloft after breaking the record, and the Junior Chamber of Commerce presented their children with Shetland ponies...