Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deep Mrs. Sykes. George Kelly's acid portrait of a malicious woman that opens out into a group picture of mismated lives (TIME, April...
...kinds of clouds passing by." His mother's surprise passed, but her son's sensitivity persisted. Whenever Belmont heard the clanging of church bells, the twittering of birds, the echoes of his own voice-multiple colors flashed before his eyes. In his 20s he took up portrait painting, but he kept mixing up sounds and colors. Finally, he submitted to the inevitable. Last week twelve of Belmont's fully orchestrated "Color-Music" paintings played full blast in Manhattan's Belmont Galleries (owned by his wife...
...Elizabeth Shoumatoff, a portrait painter, came in. She had once done a portrait of Franklin Roosevelt and now was anxious to do another. She had driven down from her Long Island home several days before and had been making sketches. Hassett gingerly collected the papers, letting the President's signatures...
...Cabinet members and other bigwigs gathered in the green-walled Cabinet Room. Harry Truman, not quite at ease, sat down nervously in a brown leather chair. When Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone strode in, Harry Truman rose, clasped a Bible between his hands, stood stiffly underneath Seymour Thomas' portrait of Woodrow Wilson. The clock on the mantel stood at 7:08. It took just one minute for the oath to be administered, and Harry Truman, 60, the neat, slim, spectacled man from Missouri, became the 32nd man to be President of the U.S.† The ceremony over, he lifted...
Died. Princess Elizabeth Bibesco,* 48, acid-penned, socialite British author (Portrait of Caroline), daughter of the first Earl of Oxford and Asquith (Herbert H. Asquith, Prime Minister 1908-1916), wife of Prince Antoine Bibesco, onetime Rumanian Minister to the U.S. (1920-1926), who nearly got called home when she "intervened" in U.S. politics by urging the 1924 election of Presidential Nominee John W. Davis; in Bucharest, Rumania, while listening to a news broadcast...