Word: posters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bedroom where Benny works with his writers contains a four-poster bed, set in the midst of microphones, a recording machine, filing cabinets, a typewriter and a desk. Scattered about are innumerable pads and pencils. Like all the rooms in Benny's house, his bedroom is equipped with a radio and a public-address-system outlet...
...first place, a Harvard band is a bigger drawing card. A House dance poster announcing that Herman Blotz and his orchestra will play has about as much appeal as a Lampoon Dutch Tilead. On the other hand, if you see a poster announcing Russ Randolphs the chances are you'll say to yourself: "Say, I know a couple of guys in this band. I'd like to see how they play." So you go to hear them and you won't be disappointed. Which brings up my second point: Two big Harvard bands are easily as good, and in most...
...months ago, shortly after the U. S. Government had carried out its destroyers-for-bases deal with England, William Allen White's Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies decided to hold a competition for a poster to help publicize its work. The Committee was promptly swamped by some 1,000 entries. Last week the Committee put 90 of them on exhibition in Manhattan, asked the public to help a gilt-edged jury pick the winners. On their choice for first prize both public and jury agreed. It was a picture of a bleak, bare...
...remaining entries, some were better art than poster art. Most commented on of all were four queer-looking items which were neither, but which might well have brought awesome whispers from fanciers of U. S. primitives. These were by a bedridden ex-gob named Robert S. Owen, who painted them while lying on his back in his Colorado Springs home. Painter Owen's posters, reminiscent of the childlike, words-of-one-syllable cartoons of Hearstman Nelson Harding, belched and dripped with arson and mayhem, made Europe's troubles look like a chamber of horrors. In one a bolshevik...
...basement was done over into a game room and a rathskeller. On the walls a wistful, cherubic Conant portrays "the forgotten man" and a puckish Conant on skis streams behind him a "California here I come" banner; also, the original James Montgomery Flagg poster welcomes alumni to the World's Fair annual meeting. There are three frequently-used pool tables, and a former dean of the Law School takes on all comers at rheumatic ping pong. The rathskeller held some very popular "punchteas" after the football games and offers vic dancing every evening except Sunday. This glorified Eliot House Grille...