Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Housepainter John Kane took 67 years to get around to sending a real painting to Pittsburgh's Carnegie International Show in 1927. Today he is rated "one of the few great American painters of this age." Horny-handed, one-legged Irishman Kane never had an art lesson in his life. Painting pictures brought him large fame (TIME, Sept. 19, 1932), little cash. Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. paid less than $150 for one of his pictures (see p. 33). Kane loved Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh was proud of him. Seven years after his art career had been established, he died...
...Jones loves St. Louis as John Kane loved Pittsburgh. The paintings of both are powerful and precise. There their resemblance ends. Joe Jones is a handsome, aggressive youngster who takes no patronage from anybody. At 14 he finished St. Louis' Benton Grade School, ran away to California, ran right back to his housepainter father whom he has since painted, with a gin bottle and from the rear to hide the fact that he had but one arm. Father Jones said: "The worst thing about that whole business was sitting there all that time beside the empty bottle...
...Pittsburgh Pirates: 11 runs to 7; a baseball game against the Boston Braves, despite the efforts of aging Babe Ruth who, equaling a feat he has accomplished only three times before in his career, made three homeruns...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology will conduct this summer a special session designed to "provide an orientation in the field of public service for those who plan to apply their professional training in municipal, state, and national government positions." Speaking before the Associated Harvard Clubs at Pittsburgh Saturday, President Conant reported that Harvard has been giving much thought to the responsibilities of universities for training men for government service. Its business school has already announced a course in public administration. The department of government, cooperating with the departments of history, economics, and sociology and the law school, "is inaugurating next fall...
Painting: Robert Berkeley Green, 25, son of a Pittsburgh chiropractor, for an egg tempera panel called County Fair...