Word: mural
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Building was on the newspapers' front pages again. They noted that Communistic Rivera who needs walls to work on has worked on the walls of "commercial minded" people exclusively for the past year. Rivera's next commission after the RCA Building was a "Forge and Foundry" mural for General Motors Corp. at its building in Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition (see p. 14). After the Rivera-Rockefeller ruckus, General Motors paused to consider what it had better...
Some exceptions: Giorgi Manuilov's able Still Life of a guitar, lamp, vase and apples. Two noteworthy American Indian mural paintings designed inside semicircle with legs at one end, symbolized heads at the other. Three drypoint etchings by John Taylor Arms, done with the smallest etching needle made...
Contrasting with the severity of Roxy's Music Hall auditorium is the decoration of the surrounding public rooms, for the most part the work of advanced young painters and sculptors encouraged by Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. In the lobby is a mighty mural by Ezra Winter. Yasuo Kuniyoshi decorated a ladies' "powder room" (toilet). The hands of Witold Gordon, Louis Bouche, Henry Billings, Donald Deskey (who art-directed the whole theatre) are in evidence...
...assure close cooperation between the House teams and the Harvard Athletic Association in such matters as equipment, playing area and coaches, and in accordance with the suggestion of the Student Council, I appointed the Director of Intra-mural Athletics, Adolph W. Samborski '25, to be Secretary of the House Athletic Committee. In the administration of House athletics Mr. Samborski has no instructions from us, other than to offer his experience to help the House Committee. On the other hand, he does not knowingly allow a House to default in athletics because of the improper selection of an unqualified representative...
...effect of House athletics on other parts of the intra-mural program has been exceptionally great. They have decidedly affected the various fraternities and clubs, in that men who live in the Houses and are also members of clubs or fraternities, seem to prefer to participate in House rather than fraternity athletics. The result of all this is that the clubs are having great difficulty in finding a sufficient number of players. Touch football this fall has been an outstanding example of this, only a few fraternity games having been played, where as in former years great interest was shown...