Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...artists. Less evident is their collective importance. Seldom old-fogy, often bold, they are oftener members of a school, children of an era, than unmistakable individuals. Attesting the show's variety are such pictures as Benton's quiet, lonesome Conversation; Doris Lee's whimsical, clever Holiday (see cut); Joe Hirsch's Two Men (see cut) which, using a very broad, low canvas, catches breadthwise the gaunt intensity of two workers; Jack Levine's Rouault-like Night Scene, where the ruddy heads and hands of the two figures emerge from a blue-black murk like blazing...
...pink gloves, diamond and emerald bracelets, a hat of feathers and flowers. While an eight-piece orchestra played her favorite tunes and she-befeathered, beflowered and bemused-sat humming them, a crowd, many of them oldsters, peered at 255 sane exhibits, murmured brightly: "Isn't it wonderful to see real painting again?" First of the eleven prizes went to Chauncey Ryder, 71, for a harmless landscape; other prizes to sound, conservative Frank W. Benson, 77, mountain-whittling Gutzon Borglum, 68. Herself a little dim about who had won the prizes, Donor Logan purred comfortably: "But they...
Last week to Langley Field went some 400 aviation experts, manufacturers and operators to see what NACA has done since the doors of the laboratories were last opened to visitors two years ago. Because this year's NACA discoveries will be flying in next year's military airplanes, only U. S. citizens were invited, their cameras were parked at the GHQ Air Force headquarters on the field and they were warned to make no sketches of charts or equipment...
...Paquette, Alfred L'Archeveque, Lyall Huet, Edouard Pharon, H. N. Bordeleau. For four months they had been excommunicated, damned, cut off from the Sacraments of their Church. Reason: they had "dared cite" their Archbishop in civil court, without his permission. Now they awaited another decree (from the Holy See) restoring them to grace. They had bowed to the Church's will, acknowledged their error...
...died insane in 1918, Cesar Ritz, onetime Swiss goatherd was the most famed hotelman in Europe, had given his name to 19 farflung hotels. In Manhattan last week arrived his widow, Madame Cesar Ritz, 72, who still helps run the Ritz in Paris. Mme Ritz had come to see the World's Fair, survey the latest American hotel methods, master the art of preparing ice cream sodas, which "we do so badly in Paris." She stayed a few days at the Waldorf, then moved on to the Ritz-Carlton...