Word: paints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Placid. Born in Russia, Blume was brought to the U.S. at five, grew up in Brooklyn. He went to work at 13 as a lithographer's apprentice, studied art on the side. At 18 he got an advance from a Manhattan gallery so he could paint fulltime. ("I've been able to get along by just painting ever since, though things haven't always been rosy.") Now 42, he lives with his wife in a small house in Sherman, Conn. His daily schedule is "just getting up and going to work. Nothing ever interferes with that...
...actor, Douglas was born only yesterday. For all but the last three of his 41 years he had been practically everything else-including fast shuffles as a lifeguard, paint salesman and professional football player. His first radio job was as an announcer on Philadelphia's WCAU, a $55-a-week steppingstone to a far fatter income as a sports and special-events broadcaster...
...years, merdeka (freedom) was the battle cry, the greeting and the promise of the young Indonesian republic. Strangers saluted each other with the word, children chanted it in the street. Many of the republic's hotels were renamed "Merdeka." But when the Dutch seized Jogjakarta, they took black paint and blotted out the word on the fagade of the hotel in the capital's heart. They have put no other name in its place...
...Erni has painted his own wife and child playing in front of a forest of blood vessels, and himself chalking abstractions on the night air. What goes on inside the body and inside the mind, he says, is just as important as the outside. If it were also as easy to paint, Erni's work would be much less mysterious to his admirers...
Many of them had already tried other work. Said McCormick's Robert W. Henderson: "I'd seen war and I was selling paint. Not that selling paint was wrong, but it wasn't enough." Former Lawyer James W. Angell "never felt law meant anything. Here I'm in touch with the basic issues of life." At Chicago Theological Seminary, Dennis Bennett, 31, said: "I was seven years in business, married, with two kids. I finally realized that I had never found a channel of expression...