Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CHARLES M. RUSSELL BOOK, by Harold McCracken. A fine serving of Americana. Next to Frederic Remington, "Kid" Russell was the most popular artist of the U.S. West. His pictures quivered with action, spoke with the light and loneliness of the wide open spaces he learned to love as a cowboy. Nearly 200 illustrations, 35 in color, together with a readable, sympathetic biography...
This is one of the many films that must have sounded marvelous at the script writers' conference: a novelist, who has a husband and an Italian chauffeur, writes about three people very much like herself, her husband, and her chauffeur. Since she is a popular novelist, her creations are romanticized exaggerations--the woman becomes emotional, the husband picturesque and tyrannical, and the chauffeur passionate. The real chauffeur reads her novel and tries to make fiction come true...
Going from professional to non-professional, Mrs. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. has an exhibition of her work at Adams House. Over the years painting has become increasingly popular as a pastime over and beyond the TV inspired filling-in of numbered spots. Even the President copies picture post cards in Colorado or paints pictures of Bobby Jones when he isn't up to the game himself. One Fine Arts professor attributed a rise in student interest in his field largely to reproductions and publicity in Time and Life. But it is doubtful that Mrs. Schlesinger takes her cue from Henry...
...topside, the dressmaker-style bulky sweater holds forth this year. Cardigans and slipovers with collar accents come in white, black, red, and grey as well as a variety of pastel shades. The patterned ski sweater with pointed collar or turtle neck is also popular, and the crew-necked Shetland is a perennial college girl favorite...
Crew-necked Shetland sweaters in solid colors are still the favorite in the Ivy circuit. Dark grey continues to be popular, but olive green is the fast-rising color of the season...