Word: rackham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ladies & Animals. The 20 paintings in Foujita's new show had all been done in the past eight months. The most memorable of them were snowy idealizations of naked ladies lying down and animal pictures that brought Arthur Rackham and the fables of La Fontaine to mind. He had been inspired to start both series, said Foujita, by a dream in which animals in human dress had mingled with humans in nothing...
...private dining room of Detroit's uptown Rackham building, U.A.W.'s scrappy, redheaded President Walter Reuther, his right arm still in a splint from a gunman's shotgun blast (TIME, May 3, 1948), battled to the last minute to force Ford to terms. As the walkout began, Reuther tried to tell newsmen what the fight was all about...
Last week, at Detroit's Rackham (municipal) Golf Course, the Brown Bomber was host to 186 of the best Negro golfers in the U.S., professional and amateur. They had been invited to compete in the newest tournament on the colored calendar, the Joe Louis Open. The Champion had sponsored sport ventures before. He sank $30,000 in the maintenance of the Brown Bombers, a nomadic, ne'er-do-well softball team. He had sponsored horse shows, bowling teams...
Around a nest of bridge tables in University of Michigan's plushy Rackham Building, 20 of the ablest educators of Europe and America gathered last week to sketch a brave new post-war world-a world in which education would play a role denied it at Versailles. Like certain famous beer-hall conferences conducted some 20 years ago, this conference had a leader-a tubby, broad-shouldered ex-German named Reinhold Schairer-and a conspiratorial air, but its ideology was far different. In the minds of the conferees the outlines of a new world order took definite shape...
...wife file suit for divorce, but he admitted the truth of rumors that he is likely to retire at the end of this year. "I ain't near the fighter I use to be," he told a newshawk after a round of golf at Detroit's Rackham golf course. "I guess I'se slipped pretty far. Won't know how far until my next fight with Lou Nova in September. If I find then I'se slipped too far, I'll give it all up. Ain't no use goin' on-just...