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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months of March and April, 1939, as among the maddest in the annals of U. S. undergraduates. On campuses throughout the land, the nation's reckless collegians madly gulped almost every conceivable object. Beginning with goldfish (TIME, April 10), they went on to swallow worms, magazines, snakes (see p. 2), footballs, gunpowder...
Last week a few days before Adolf Hitler, Thomas Hart Benton celebrated his 50th birthday with a big party in Kansas City, Mo. (see p. 18) and next day caught a train for Manhattan. The celebration there was even bigger-an over-all exhibition of his paintings from 1908 to 1939. His first one-man Manhattan show in seven years, it was installed in a blaze of light at the opening of a new Fifth Avenue gallery by Associated American Artists (TIME...
...Benton show proved that it has done Tom Benton good to go to art school, even though it took his present teaching job at the Kansas City Art Institute to make him stay in one. Such simple little paintings as Rainy Day (see cut), done last year, impressed critics as new and less superficial renderings of what Benton has in his head. Most surprising, however, were a number of beautifully constructed still lifes with real depth and richness of texture. Said Tom Benton: "What there is in me to do I now know that...
...called "archaic" coolness and clarity of form of 16th-century French painting, after the great portraitist, François Clouet. The line in Artist Guevara's pictures seems almost engraved; her forms are firmly rounded, spick-&-span, in cool, grey-blue space. Most impressive: the Seated Young Woman (see cut), plump and brown in a red skirt and an airy room...
Died. Willard Huntington Wright, 51, critic and (under the pseudonym of S. S. Van Dine) detectifictioneer (Philo Vance) ; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan (see...