Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chained Art. Nadia Boulanger was born in a house full of music. Her grandfather was a composer and so was her father, who in 1835 won the Prix de Rome. Her grandmother was a famous singer at the Opera-Comique and her mother a Russian princess. Nadia herself won prizes in every subject she studied at the Paris Conservatory, topped it off with the second Grand Prix de Rome...
...like a Mondrian abstraction-and had more life in it. Yvonne Grogan's black & white Landscape had a sense of balance that a trapeze artist might envy. Hypo and Little Hypo, by Brooklyn's John Pietrowski, 8, for all its blots and blotches, was a study of mother love. Almost all the pictures, selected from 42 New York City settlement-house art classes, had obviously been painted for fun. The best of them will be sent to Paris in May, for an international festival of children's painting...
...year-old Jane Reis (rhymes with geese) of Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., is scarcely able to write her own name, but she had 16 "poems" published last week in the Saturday Review of Literature. Her mother had jotted down Jane's offhand utterings, proudly showed them off to friends. Professor Lionel Trilling of Columbia pronounced them good, got SRL interested. Sample...
...average reporter would handle a Speed Graphic camera. But Francis Michael ("Slim") Lynch makes good pictures with either machine. A year ago, the Washington State Press Club gave old-time Photographer Lynch a prize (for a picture of a murderer's wife tearfully comforting the victim's mother). Last week Slim Lynch, who has now put his camera aside, got another Press Club award-this time, for the best-written feature story in any newspaper in the state...
Milt got his start just a few blocks north-in Harlem. His mother, Mrs. Sandra Berlinger, a Wanamaker and Gimbels store detective, began peddling him around New York's old Biograph movie studios when he was only five. At 16, she shoved him into his first solo comedy act, planted herself in the audience and started every big laugh with a stentorian "yak" that soon became famed throughout show business. At 21, Milt was a smash hit at the Palace, rolled on to successes on Broadway. But most of all, he wowed them in nightclubs. (His latest...