Word: salvadore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extensive stock of originals and prints and does considerable framing work. Their exhibition this month is the series of paintings of the "Temptation of Saint Anthony," which Mayor Curley recently condemned as offensive to religious persons. The show contains some interesting interpretations by such painters as Abraham Rattner, Salvador Dali, Ivan Albright, and Dorothea Tanning; but only Max Ernst's prize-winning canvas captures the terror brought to the theme by the Gothic Masters...
...Abner to show their notions of how she looked. It turned out to be the comic promotion stunt of the year: everybody seemed to want to draw the ugliest woman alive, and a million repulsive drawings came in. Capp and three strong-stomached judges (Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff, Salvador Dali) picked the worst of the lot (see cut), awarded her creator, Basil Wolverton, a Vancouver, Wash, comic-book artist, a $500 prize...
Initiator of last week's talks: Jose Gustavo Guerrero, president of the International Court of Justice and Central America's leading internationalist. To his home in Santa Ana, El Salvador, he invited the heads of the five Central American countries to discuss reunion now. Only two came. Nicaragua's Somoza lay ill in Boston, Honduras' Carias could not find time, and Costa Rica's Picado was on a diplomatic vacation...
...presidents of Guatemala and El Salvador met, agreed to name three commissioners each (the other republics were invited to do the same) to draw up a plan by next March for closer Central American union. Guatemala's President Juan Jose Arevalo, who had seen his 1945 proposals for customs union stalled by local interests, spoke again for action. "This is the moment for firm decisions," he said, "not half-baked ones...
Another early hero of Surrealism, Salvador Dali, had been excommunicated for a rankling crime: success. Dali's slick-as-grease craftsmanship and even slicker pressagenting had won him a reputation as a sort of a screwball Benvenuto Cellini in modern dress. Last week a new edition of the real Cellini's famed Autobiography appeared (Doubleday Limited Editions; $10) and it was illustrated by Dali...