Word: offing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born in Boston in 1901, Painter Hoffman began drawing as soon as he could hold a pencil. He studied art in Boston and Europe, now lives in a crowded Manhattan studio with a squint-eye view of Central Park. For recreation, he plays squash, second fiddle in an amateur chamber...
When Artist Hoffman dislikes one of his pictures, he paints another over it. Failures lurk behind most of his canvases. Thus hidden is the painting that first brought him fame-Rubbish, which showed a derelict sitting next to an ashcan. "When I do a bad thing," he says, "I want...
27, Assistant U. S. Attorney in New York, son of Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes; and Miralotta Lucia Sauer, 25, daughter of a Winnetka pediatrician; in Winnetka, Ill. Best man: Secretary Ickes.
Died. Dr. William Irving Sirovich, 57, New York's eloquent, dressy, perpetually carnationed Congressman from the Lower East Side; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.
Died. Juan Demostenes Arosemena, 61, President (the 16th) of Panama, longtime champion of Pan-American solidarity; of a heart attack; in Penonome, Panama.