Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Columbia (pop. 43,000), site of the University of Missouri. Stout-souled citizens wonder what is wrong. Chamber of Commerce members writhe to the beat and get the message. It is so nonsensical that at first it seems to be garbled: name the new boulevard (boom-lay boom) after Milton Caniff...
What caused the U.S. about-face? One reason became plain next day, when President Eisenhower suggested a similar plan for the troubled Middle East before the U.N. General Assembly. But more important was Latin America's joint impact on Visitors Richard Nixon, Milton Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles. When Dulles returned from talks with Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek a fortnight ago, he put his department heads to work on the development bank idea...
...color page), unanimously chosen by a three-man jury:* first prize ($1,500), Manhattan Abstractionist John Ferren, 52, for his The Birches; second ($750), Social Realist Semyon Shimin, 55, for his Discussion Groups-Rome, sketched in Rome during the 1956 elections but finished in Manhattan; and third ($250), Milton Goldring, 40, also a New Yorker, for his Shadow and Substance. The predominant tone of the festival is abstract expressionist, and imitative of the leaders of that movement...
...impact of the festival and the museum has been widespread. Last week, for the first time in its 89-year history, Provincetown's weekly Advocate went to 16 pages. More artists have taken up residence; Milton Avery, John Hultberg, Mark Rothko have made Provincetown their summer home. New galleries are selling paintings faster than in Manhattan. More than just good business, 1958 has brought sparkling new life to the old culture of Provincetown...
Died. Eddie Davis, 53, New York cab driver turned hack writer (his own joke), gagman for Eddie Cantor, Milton Berle, Jimmy Durante. Bob Hope, co-author of brassy Broadway musicals (Ankles Aweigh, Follow the Girls); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Davis' career got up on two wheels when Eddie Cantor happened into his crouched-and-waiting cab in 1928. Davis worked some ten years for him, cracked: "Every year he raised my pay but no matter how much money he gave me I still wouldn't marry one of his daughters." Davis provided Jimmy Durante with...