Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...colors take on varying hues. "You see I want my inventions to act, to lose their identity. What I expect from my colors and forms is that they do something they don't want to do themselves. For instance, I want to push a green so it looks red." Isn't that a rather experimental approach? "Yes, all my work is experimental...
Pearls & Sauce Cooks. A man who can afford to get tired of a place, he would take to train, plane or steamship whenever the urge hit him. He once turned up a week late on a trip from Hollywood to Manhattan to work on Red, Hot and Blue. He explained to his collaborators, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, that he had detoured to Callander, Ont., to get a look at the Dionne quintuplets. Once, drinking dark beer in Munich with a Yale crony, Monty Woolley, he decided to follow the trail of the brew as it grew lighter; they wound...
...East as a young man, made most of his money in hides, skins, coffee and the operation of a fleet of merchant ships. It was said he had been born a gypsy, that he owned half the city of Aden, the rocky British colony at the edge of the Red Sea. During the war he had been anti-Vichy, had donated ?10,000 to British war relief...
Florida's Tropical Park had cut purses and pared expenses to keep from finishing its recent meeting in the red. Seeing the handwriting on the wall, rich and prosperous Pimlico announced that the value of the Preakness would be lowered from $100,000 to $75,000 this spring; Belmont Park had done likewise with its Belmont Stakes (leaving the Kentucky Derby the only $100,000 gem in racing's Triple Crown...
When Detroit newsmen asked the police to issue new 1949 press cards-usually a routine procedure-they got a surprise. Last week, Harry S. Toy, the squat, eagle-beaked police commissioner who has talked darkly about a "Red revolution in Michigan," said that, to get a press card, every reporter would have to 1) fill out a form listing his press experience, and 2) swear that he was not a member of "any organization affiliated with the Communist Party or Communism...