Word: quits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revolutions, and only about 15 years at art-during which he completed eleven major murals. There were three six-year periods when he didn't paint at all. Russia's famed Film Director Sergei Eisenstein, speaking more frankly then than he could now, once advised Siqueiros to quit his politicking and concentrate on painting. Had he done so, Siqueiros might already have surpassed the reputations of his fellow triumvirs of Mexican art, Rivera and Orozco. There was no denying that his latest exhibition made their work look placid...
...often. He later found that the Columbia School of Journalism "had all the intellectual status of a training school for future employees of the A. & P." The "colorless, odorless and tasteless" Times fired Liebling from its copydesk for identifying an unidentified basketball referee as "Ignoto" ("unknown" in Italian). He quit his next job on the Providence Journal when the publisher fired a reporter to make room for the son of a local bigshot. (Liebling dedicates his book "to the foundation of a school for publishers, failing which, no school of journalism can have meaning...
...quit high school to play piano and sing in a band in which her father played bass, and Bunk Johnson played cornet. Hollywood has been hearing her in nightclubs for the past five years, but Nellie didn't really begin to catch on until Capitol recorded her He's a Real Gone Guy, Hurry On Down and You Better Watch Yourself, Bub. Her first two records have already sold nearly a million copies. Last week Nellie, now 32, received Broadway's final tribute to a popular singer, Tin Pan Alley's rough equivalent to a Stalin...
...McCarthy, who quit MacPhail's Yankees last year, became field boss of the Boston Red Sox, replacing Joe Cronin...
Once Jiminy has quit selling, the invisible Miss Shore tells and sings quite a pleasant little yarn about one Bongo (original story by Nobel Prizewinner Sinclair Lewis). Bongo is a small circus bear who answers the call of the wild on his unicycle, finds that he is a bit soft and urban for life in the raw, falls for a sexy little taupe she-bear, and engages a gigantic rival in slapstick battle...