Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yellow Cloth, a cubist design of unusual beauty which Pittsburghers snooted for being "abstract" (TIME, Oct. 25). Last week's opening night audience showed no such alarm over the 36th International first prize winner, The Wind (see cut), by German Karl Ilofer. Among critics it was a popular award. Long regarded as one of the most profound followers of Cézanne, 60-year-old Karl Hofer was a venerated teacher at the Berlin Academy until the Nazis ousted him. Grim, uneasy and intense as his great French master, he works hard by turns in Switzerland...
...grateful citizens of Crystal City, Texas, U.S. spinach-raising centre, put up a Popeye statue. Three years ago, when Segar's comic strip appeared in. over 500 newspapers in the U.S. and 20 foreign countries, Popeye nosed out Mickey Mouse in a nationwide poll as the most popular comic-strip character. Some of the strip's phrases which have passed into the language: "goon" (a homely person, or one with a hangover), "jeep" (a girl who demands an expensive good time), "I yam what...
...grandson of Vermont Methodist ministers, softspoken, convivial Wesley Sturges, 45, is probably the most popular man on the Yale law faculty. He looks and acts more like an enterprising businessman than a Ph.D. professor or parson's son. A director of the American Arbitration Association, he won the D.S.I.'s attention few months ago by settling two minor scraps between Connecticut liquor dealers...
...world's most popular writer on aviation is Anne Morrow Lindbergh, whose North to the Orient has sold 250,000 copies in three years, has been translated into eight languages, and is still selling at the rate of 800 a month. The disarming candor of Mrs. Lindbergh's writing is probably the biggest reason for its popularity, since she combines technical discussions of flight with humdrum, housewifely confessions of her fears while flying. Listen! The Wind has the same engaging tone as North to the Orient, includes some vivid recollections of tense hours over the Atlantic which give...
...Listen! The Wind proves to be less popular than North to the Orient, it may be because it describes a more tedious journey, gives the impression that Mrs. Lindbergh enjoyed flying over the frozen North far more than over the tropics...