Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...native of Pittsburgh. N.Y., DeForest Clinton Jarvis graduated from the University of Vermont College of Medicine, and in 1909 opened an office in Barre (pop. 12,000), headquarters of the granite-for-tombstones industry. He concentrated on diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. Now 78, a roughhewn, granitic specimen, he still treats a few patients in an office whose windows are blazoned with his name in letters almost a foot high...
Vienna-born, Koerner came to the U.S. in 1939, lives in a Victorian gingerbread-style house in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill section. His new pictures deal, often harshly and always provocatively, with the basic human condition, especially in America. As pictures, they have beauty, but their content is seldom beautiful. "America's beauty," Koerner jauntily explains, "is in its ugliness...
...years to produce the 15 paintings of the present series, which will go on view next month at Manhattan's Midtown Gallery. The five reproduced on the following pages show the range and strangeness of his imaginings. ¶The Diver has as its setting a flooded rooftop on Pittsburgh's Polish Hill, with the Pennsylvania Railroad main line in the background. Key to the composition is the girl's arm, tenderly outstretched toward the skindiver. Koerner had in mind the sort of arduous wooing found in fairy tales, where the king sets a series of tasks...
...Flight is also a study in opposites. The young daredevil, or perhaps the your Leonardo, poises on the verge of trying his wings from a cliff top overlooking Pittsburgh's Bigelow Boulevard. He defies authority and rigid conservatism (which say it cannot be done), represented in only two dimensions by the safety poster. His mother, hanging out the clothes, doubtless regards her headstrong son with mixed emotions...
...Logan Truax Johnston, 60, was elected president and chief executive officer of Armco Steel Corp., succeeding Ralph Larrabee Gray, 65, who will become chairman. Pittsburgh-born Logan Johnston started in the steel industry in 1925 as a salesman for Columbia Steel Co. of Butler, Pa., joined Armco in 1927 when Columbia was merged with it, has made a career selling steel. He was named Armco's general manager of sales in 1947, a vice president in 1952 and executive vice president in 1958. As president, Johnston is expected to press product variety, which has made Armco fourth...