Word: mullens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...woman has learned how to paint pictures that will last forever-or at least 1,000 years-but now she can't paint them any more. For ten years tall, dark-eyed, strikingly chic Chicago socialite Buell Mullen crusaded for an art new-fashioned to fit a chromium, copper and aluminum age and developed a method of painting on metal. Now she has only enough war metal on hand to see her through this year. A mural commissioned by International Business Machines has been shelved for the duration, because neither she nor the company cares...
...metal method was evolved through rigorous experimentation. Mrs. Mullen left her paintings out in snowstorms, stowed them in damp places, cooked them on hot radiators, to see how they would take it. Using a surface prepared by etching and acid, with tested paints and finishes, she learned how to accomplish a sound union between the metals and oils...
...Mullen's results are rarely as heroic as her efforts. Already on their way to the 1,000-year-distant scrap heap are her portraits of Conductor Eugene Ormandy in chromium; Governor Herbert Lehman in britannia, Nelson Eddy in aluminum, General John Pershing (in stainless steel on the observation car of Burlington's General Pershing Zephyr). She has done others in pewter, gold, brass, glass and wood. Recently at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Navy officials dedicated her stainless steel murals Hong Kong Harbor and London Pool-two great scenes of British shipping...
...visit to Mexico in 1940. Like many a language student before him, he discovered that songs improve the ear, enlarge the vocabulary and warm the heart. Mexican popular songs are good. Mr. Wallace listened, learned, sang. One evening last autumn he talked to NBC's Executive Frank Mullen about a radio program to teach Spanish that...
Hardbitten, bright-eyed Mr. Mullen set NBC's assembly lines in motion. Fortnight ago the ' Wallace dream boat slid down NBC's ways with launching speeches by gracious Señorita Castillo Najera, daughter of the Mexican Ambassador, and Mr. Wallace. At network stations the National Federation of Music Clubs, the National Federation of Business & Professional Women's Clubs held listening parties...