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...good enough realist to have a watercolor of the Seattle waterfront hung in a major exhibition. In 1926 he gave up both local notoriety and his studies at the University of Washington to go to San Francisco, where, between part-time jobs as grease monkey, bank clerk and restaurant waiter, he worked on his style ("There was nobody there to tell me I was wonderful"). Back in Seattle he tried commercial art. (Says his wife: "Kenneth's heart just wasn't in it. He was always leaving...
...worldly problems seemed to be many, moreover. A former fellow tenant of Grover's describes him as "antagonistic, a brute, and a pretty fresh monkey, always ready to pick up his fists...
MICHELANGELO complained about noise and marble dust in our profession," says Sculptor David Smith, "but I finish the day looking like a grease monkey." Sculptor Smith's complaint reflects the rise of a new phenomenon in the art world: a flood of wire and metal shapes that is turning many a sculptor's studio into something resembling a blacksmith's shop, where the oxyacetylene torch has replaced the hammer and chisel, a welder's mask the smock...
With the occasional aid of stage props (including a horse and pet monkey), Chandler lampooned his opponents without mercy and with considerable corn. His chief targets: Governor Lawrence Wetherby ("Wetherbine") and Senator Earle Clements ("Clementine"), the acting majority leader of the U.S. Senate and absentee Democratic boss of Kentucky. Happy has made much of a rug in Wetherby's office, which he says cost $20,000, and of an $863,200 bill for air-conditioning the state Capitol...
Into the orderly merger between Farm Journal, No. 1 U.S. farm magazine, and Country Gentleman, No. 2 (TIME, June 20), the Federal Trade Commission last week dropped a monkey wrench. In a complaint filed under the Clayton Antitrust Act, FTC charged that the merger would give Farm Journal-Country Gentleman "approximately 51% of the total net paid circulation among the six largest competitors in the farm magazine field"-though only 24% of total farm magazine circulation-thus "lessen competition" and "tend to create a monopoly." The news surprised Farm Journal President Richard Babcock, who said that the FTC made...