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Some of the murals portrayed little-known points of law. In the main hall, the Pennsylvania Academy's George Harding painted an old man with a violin: the artist's idea of symbolizing the fact that in Pennsylvania grandchildren are liable for the support of their grandparents. Vincent Maragliotti, ecclesiastical painter, showed the court as an angel in pursuit of a husband who has deserted his wife and child. Alice Kent Stoddard, Philadelphia painter of children, made a sedate, fuzzy mural of children building a city of tomorrow, with her Maltese cat in one corner. Another mural...
There were even a few laughs. Joke of the week: "Hug the wall," said a man when the bombs began to fall. Said a second man: "I'm practically a mural...
...College. A crack portraitist, Robert Philipp, goes to the University of Illinois on a $4,000 Rotating Professorship succeeding Dale Nichols (TIME, Sept. 18, 1939). The Foundation turned down Pennsylvania State College when they asked for a grant to keep Henry Varnum Poor around after he had finished a mural commissioned by the college (TIME, June...
Small Shads, called mew yaps, must shag for their elders, rise at 4 a.m. to close the windows in winter, when temperatures of 30° below are no rarity. Divided into Gophers and Badgers for intra mural sports, Shattuck boys excel at most, helped introduce football to the Midwest. When Shads rebel at fish twice a week and ice cream only once, they stiffly march down the hill against orders, march back up again. Some loyal Old Shads: Diplomat Robert Woods Bliss, President George M. Moffett of Corn Products Refining Co., President Henry A. Scandrett of Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul...
...saucer-eyed Diego Rivera brought down Rockefeller wrath on his mop-haired pate by giving a place of honor in his Rockefeller Center mural to Lenin. Last week a similar rumpus flurried up when the figure of Joseph Stalin was discovered in a WPA mural at Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field. Keeping Stalin company were two little-known Leftist aviators lined up alongside Byrd, Lindbergh, Earhart; a U. S. Navy hangar whose white star insignia had become the red star of the Soviets...