Word: projects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...project, a private University enterprise, will be open to veterans at Harvard, general University personnel, and the public, in that order...
...kind of journalistic portraiture that TIME and its cover artists had developed. Of our cover artists (the others are, of course, Ernest Hamlin Baker, Boris Artzybasheff and Boris Chalia-pin), Rowe was the only one who felt that he could devote all of his time to the project. Harte gave him the assignment...
Rowe says that the 3½-years he spent doing the illustrations "could hardly be called work. The project was alive." A native of Salt Lake City, Guy Rowe was a miner, cowhand, mechanic, acrobat, lumberjack and bill collector before he became an artist. His introduction to art came via a vaudeville act in which he drew chalk portraits of people in the audience on a blackboard. He went to art school and became a commercial artist-a field in which he is remembered for the still life portraits he did in the Jello ads. In 1943 he began doing...
Reaching into the public till and job making came to a head in 1941 when the then District Attorney, Richard F. Bradford, charged the incumbent mayor of Cambridge, John W. Lyons, with accepting a one-third rebate on architect's fees for a city building project...
...trial that Lyons had done nothing inconsistent with the mores of Massachusetts politicians. The defense maintained that the architects gift to Lyons cost the taxpayers nothing since the contract on which Lyons and taken a kickback had gone to the lowest bidder as it should, and the building project was not frivolous...