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...circumstances in which Bowler Mensenberg made his, at the No. 1 event of the year for U. S. bowlers, were 400,000 to 1. In the 35-year history of the Congress, only three bowlers in some 1,250,000 games have ever done it before.* Bowler Mensenberg. of Scranton, Pa., competent enough to have made one other perfect game in informal competition, responded politely to the cheers of his gallery, learned that he would get a special gold medal with two diamonds, told reporters he felt "swell." Then, unnerved by his achievement, he rounded out his score with...
...Moffatt, senior member of Moffatt & Spear, was elected president of the New York Curb Exchange, No. 2 U. S. securities market. Son of a minor Erie R. R. official who died when his son was 15, President Moffatt got his start as a Postal Telegraph messenger boy in Scranton, Pa. He bought his Curb seat in 1923, two years after that boisterous outdoor market sought the dignity and protection of a roof...
Before the public was admitted to Pittsburgh's Carnegie International, generally considered the most important annual art show in the U. S., the jury went through the galleries and awarded the $1,500 first prize to Peter Blume's colorful surrealist design entitled South of Scranton. The award moved the U. S. Press to great bursts of sarcasm, but the Carnegie Institute directors bided their time (TIME, Oct. 29). Last week the show closed. All who visited it were given ballots and asked to vote for their favorite among the 356 paintings exhibited. With a total of 1,920 votes...
...little man with a head on which cabbages grow, carrying a huge spoon across a rocky mountain, all painted in meticulous mid-Victorian detail. Month ago a U.S. surrealist named Peter Blume won first prize ($1,500) at the Carnegie International Exhibition in Pittsburgh with his South of Scranton (TIME, Oct. 29). Last week a still abler Parisian surrealist named Salvador Dali arrived in Manhattan with a load of minutely painted canvases to bewilder the eye of logic...
Said the Pittsburgh Press's Douglas Naylor of the No. 1 prizewinner: "Like some others, this reviewer smiled at first sight of South of Scranton. It seems reasonable to conclude that the cannon atop the queer turret is symbolic of capitalism." William Germain Dooley of the Boston Evening Transcript: "All very childlike and charming and deliberately naïve-but also completely counterfeit and insincere...