Word: muralitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spent three years studying in Paris. Returning to the U.S. with a charming French wife, Painter Binford bought himself "a more than primitive" house in Virginia, started farming, painting the local Negroes. He also succeeded in arousing the local white population. Commissioned last spring to paint a mural of the burning of Richmond (1865) for the Saunders Station Post Office, Binford submitted a preliminary sketch nicely calculated to lose him the job. His rough drawing showed a street scene jammed with looters, a mother trying to escape with her baby over prone bodies, a half-naked woman who has torn...
...Dispatch: "The woman's back and hips are poorly portrayed." Said Artist Binford: "When and how did this bishop become an authority on the 'backs and hips' of nude women? Scat, Bishop! Get off my scaffold. I am not trying to swarm your pulpit." Result: his mural is still in the sketch stage...
...exhibit No. 1 was Chagall's 5½ ft. by 10 ft. Revolution, which was having its first showing. Gallerygoers, who clustered around this movable mural, saw Artist Chagall's mystical interpretation of what is going on in the world. Out of its upper right hand corner shaggy-haired Chagall gazed poker-faced at the weird doings below...
Jackie Comerford from Everett got a great build-up when he arrived here because of his sensational forward-passing ability, and during the intra-mural game a week ago he hit his targets time after time with swift bullet-heaves. Though at this writing he was not on the Varsity squad, he is making a strong bid, and may soon end up there...
...Freshmen will get the chance to talk over the air this morning. Harvard's student-run station, the Crimson Network, is planning to hold an all-day session at Memorial Hall to give all men the opportunity to be interviewed over the intra-mural system...