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Carl-Henning Pedersen is the best painter in Denmark-and for art dealers the most frustrating. He has about 1,000 canvases stashed away in the storerooms of a Copenhagen brewery, and he turns as frosty as a glass of Carlsberg when anyone suggests that he might sell one. He recently refused a substantial check for 15 paintings because he said it would raise his standard of living, so he simply gave the paintings away. He is indifferent to what the critics say, and dealers, who try to see him at his lonely house on the west coast of Jutland...
...design sculptor is 32-year-old Norman Hoberman, who worked with a team from the Manhattan architectural firm of Pedersen & Tilney. Hoberman rejected the idea of any kind of statue, because "there is so much photographic material on F.D.R." Nor did he want another anachronism such as a modified Greek temple (the Lincoln Memorial) or an Egyptian obelisk (the Washington Monument). Instead, he proposed perpendicular tablets carrying quotations from Roosevelt. Commented Jury Chairman Pietro Belluschi: "I hate to bring up Moses and his tablets, but this is a sort of version of them...
...Luck. His name was Pedersen. He had signed his first poems "Hamsund," after his family farm, but a careless printer dropped the final 'd' off an early byline and he stuck to the misprinted name for luck. Meatpacker Armour's $25 was one of Knut Hamsun's rare breaks in the U.S.; in 1888, he returned to Norway to write of his disenchantment with the U.S. of booming stockyards and cornlands. He had found no cultural life in the U.S., only "prudishness, self-complacent ignorance," and "patriotism engendered by tin fifes...
...Arts and Sciences, will receive awards this Friday at 12:30 p.m., in the Faculty Room. To Vincent E. Starsinger '50 will go the James Gordon Bennet Prize; to Alfred Arnovitz '51, the Philo Sherman Bennet Prize; to Stephen M. Schwebel '50, the Chase Prize; to Richard F. Pedersen, 3G, the Sumner Prize; and to Carl E. Schorske, candidate for PhD. this June, the Toppan Prize. These awards, given for theses, consist of incomes from invested funds...
From the start, All This and Heaven Too had a better chance to make the movies than a producer's girl friend. Novelist Field's husband, Arthur Pedersen, is a Hollywood literary agent, and in the early summer of 1938 galley proofs of the novel were at all the big movie plants before the ink was dry. As it turned out, the script was the prima donna of the show from start to finish...