Word: muralitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thanksgiving Day, New York University officials had ripped the sketch for a student mural off its La Guardia Hall wall because of "sharp student controversy" (TIME, Dec. 5). The mural, by thrice-wounded Veteran Harold Collins, was intended to represent One World, but some of his fellows thought it looked like nothing more nor less than Communist propaganda. Last week N.Y.U. students forgot to disagree about it long enough to denounce removal of the mural as "a direct attack and violation of student rights and the usurpation of the powers of student government." As a matter of principle they wanted...
Inside, the finishing touches had been made. Artists had just put the last bright reds and yellows to the 25-ft. mural showing a Puerto Rican feast-day celebration; roulette wheels, chemin de fer and dice tables had been moved into the casino. The blue-tiled swimming pool cut out of the coral rock and the bright yellow-awninged beach cabanas were all ready for the first guests...
...picture cameras, a projector, and lights are the extent of the present operating machinery, according to Ward. He added that a new club room in the basement of Leverett House has replaced makeshift meetings in his Lowell House room. The club is redecorating its new headquarters with an original mural by David E. Vanderburgh '50. To complete the room, Ivy is planning a new film library...
...seemed a harmless enough project. New York University Senior Harold Collins had offered to paint a mural in the university's La Guardia Hall with the title One World. Sketched in charcoal, Collins' World put N.Y.U. in a whirl last week...
Marble-fronted, white and gleaming, the world's largest Woolworth store opened on Houston's bustling Main Street. It cost $8,000,000, is completely air-conditioned, seats 150 at its lunch counter. On opening day, 40,000 Houstonians gawked at the big "History of Texas" mural between the front doors, rode up & down the escalators, kept cash registers ringing. Although most middle-aged people still think of Woolworth's as a "Five and Dime," the Houston store last week showed how great the change has been behind the old familiar red front. There were canaries...