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What Los Angeles architects hoped could someday be done about all this was shown in models of compact units that included offices, homes and factories, separated by recreational greenbelts; of broad freeway highways with tunneled traffic intersections. Visitors were confronted with mural blowups of ballots, marked with an X in a space labeled "better planning...
Pittsburgh's first prize ($1,000) went to an artist who had never had an exhibition, 41-year-old, Denver-born Tom Loftin Johnson. His prize-winning American Pietà, which was once refused by Manhattan's National Academy show, was a skillfully drawn, mural-like scene showing Negroes bearing home the corpse of a lynched relative. No one was more surprised at the $1,000 it earned than Painter Johnson himself. Said he: "I don't know quite how it happened. The money came in very good because I have...
...same bitterness and heart-sickness, the same neurotic introversion, and it strikes that note of the deliberately bizarre and macabre that is one of the surest tokens of decadent art. The only other contemporary work of art that can be compared to it in this respect is Picasso's mural Guernica. That also embodies an incredible amount of pure horror, with the total effect bordering on hysteria...
...running away with the annual House track meet held yesterday at Soldiers Field, Kirkland House has taken a giant step toward winning another Straus Trophy, which is awarded every year to the House compiling the most points in intra-mural sports during the year...
...later, on May 1, Pablo Picasso, strong Loyalist, began work on a mural depicting that first and most ruthless bombing of an open town which was not a military objective, for the Spanish Government Building at the Paris World's Fair. His mural is now in the Fogg Art Museum, and will hang there till the 20th of October...