Word: postes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past four years Artist Blickenderfer has been employed by the New York Post as a retoucher of photographs. He lives in suburban Astoria with his dark-haired wife, Elsie, whom he met while both were studying at Manhattan's Art Students' League. Flat canvas has always been a strait-jacket to Artist Blickenderfer. Says he: "I theorize that the phenomenon popularly termed 'distortion' in modern art is possibly an effort to compensate for the unnatural flatness. . . . Today, of course, as in any language, the idiom of distortion is used as a hand-down, its source...
Slack-jowled Baron Erik Kùle Palmstierna, 60, since 1920 Swedish Minister to the Court of St. James, let it be known he had resigned his post effective January 1. Reason: to devote full time to spiritualism, on which he has composed a book (Horizon of Immortality). London gossip said his decision was the result of mystic advice supplied him at a seance...
Adam Gimbel wanted to be an architect, but Gimbels have been storekeepers ever since 1842 when an earlier Gimbel started a trading post for fur trappers in Vincennes, Indiana. Adam went to Yale Architectural School for two years but he did not go into architecture. Instead, in 1915, he started to help keep the family stores. Storekeeper Horace Saks died in 1925, just after opening a store on Fifth Avenue and selling out to Gimbel Bros. Adam Gimbel's cousin Bernard made him president of Saks-Fifth Avenue. But after 17 years of storekeeping, handsome Storekeeper Adam Gimbel still...
Those who figure that an author's abilities should at least keep pace with his public's have had their calculations upset by Author Masters' post-Spoon River performances. Thirty-two generally humdrum volumes of prose and verse have poured from his pen into the literary ocean, and have disappeared with faint gurgles barely audible to the public at large. But the sense of Poet Masters' potential ability lingers on; and to a loyal band of U. S. readers every new Masters book comes bound in hope as well as boards...
PLOT AND COUNTERPLOT IN CENTRAL EUROPE-M. W. Fodor-Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). Marcel Fodor, 47-year-old Hungarian, for many years Central European correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, the New York Evening Post, takes a correspondent's-eye-view of the Danube and Balkan countries, pounces on numerous unknown and little-known facts...