Word: paints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprised by America's plenty ("Lots of crayons and paint and paper-It staggers me after being short for so long during the war") and tickled by the education gadgets (building blocks, boards with colored pegs) that helped to make learning more fun in the U.S. Other differences: more paper work; the higher cost of living (her English school still pays her salary, which comes to a scant $25 a week after tax and pension deductions); the unpopularity of walking as a recreation; the way U.S. children sing familiar nursery rhymes, e.g., London Bridge Is Falling Down, Sing...
Underwear without Picasso. Rand's ads are sometimes as pristine as good abstract painting, sometimes as jumbled as Dadaism on an off-day. But unlike many frustrated ad artists who like to paint "the real thing" on Sundays, Rand believes he can put his art into ads. Generally, a Rand ad looks disarmingly simple when done, but obviously took a lot of thinking. "Briefly," he explains in his book, "the designer experiences, perceives, analyzes, organizes, symbolizes, synthesizes." Rand is against "using Picasso to sell underwear," believes that "to design a liquor ad you should know what...
...Average weekly hours worked by coal miners in September: 41.4, for which miners were paid an average $1.48 per hour. Average pay of other industrial workers - iron & steel: $1.24 (40-hour week); autos: $1.37 (39-hour week). *A Colonial antique, now badly in need of a coat of paint. *More or less from As You Like It: "A poor virgin, sir, an ill-favored thing, sir, but mine...
...driver admitted that they had each received $25 for warning fellow Negroes away from the polls. A white Catholic priest, who had asked polling officials why his parishioners were not allowed to vote, had received the answer: "No Negroes are going to vote in Pass Christian [Miss.] unless they paint their faces white...
...paintings were by a stage designer named Mstislav Dobujinsky. Dobujinsky, a dapper, silver-haired Lithuanian, has done ballet sets from Moscow to Manhattan-usually, as in his sets for Diaghilev's Ballet Russe, filled with backdrops of toppling, cubistic cities. Last summer Dobujinsky found peace from the pasteboard, fast-whirling world of the theater in Newport's piles. "They are part of American history," he said, "I am very proud that I could paint them...