Word: muralitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Missing at Sea. Lieut. Thomas Sargent La Farge, 38, of the Coast Guard Reserve, mural painter, grandson of the late Painter John La Farge, cousin of Writer Oliver La Farge; somewhere in the Atlantic. He was skipper of the Coast Guard cutter Natsek, presumed by the Navy to be lost after being unheard of for "several weeks...
Dopesters thought that the change would make but little difference in the April election. Same day, standing in front of a huge, nude painting of the birth of Venus in the Morrison Hotel's Mural Room, Ed Kelly had been handed a 6-ft. stack of petitions by his ward heelers re-nominating him as Democratic candidate for Mayor. Ed Kelly had said: "There comes a time in every man's life when he says, 'I've been in long enough, let's give someone else a chance.' But that time...
...stations of the new line, like those of the old one in operation since 1935, are granite-floored, clean and glistening, walled with colored marbles, studded with mosaics, friezes, murals and statuettes of Russian workers, soldiers, sailors. An austere statue of Joseph Stalin striding forward, one hand thrust in the breast of his coat, dominates the new terminal platform. The platform was decorated by Professor Vladimir Frolov, who was killed recently in Leningrad after burying mosaics to save them from Nazi shells. A large mural depicts a pilot, a tankman and a tommy-gunner against a background of a mailclad...
...especially screwy achievement of Mr. Goldberg was that his exhibition should be held in a midtown brownstone house owned by Banker John Pierpont Morgan. Mr. Goldberg had covered an entire Morgan wall with a mural entitled: Automatic Hitler-Kicking Machine...
...just completed another assignment-a 12½-ft.-sq. mural for a Negro church at Shiloh, Va. This is one of the rare occasions that a Negro congregation has commissioned a white artist to decorate its church. The mural, unveiled with impressive ceremonies, forms the background to the church's baptismal pool. For this job Painter Binford was paid in produce. "The local Negroes," he explains, "who have spent months posing for and watching me paint this mural, inaugurated for my benefit and unknown to me a 'Harvest Home' in their church." Now the Binfords have enough...