Word: shows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back on to the float and settled down with three bottles of champagne at his feet, he felt moved to announce: "This king stuff is fine, real fine. It's knocking me out-I've blowed my top." Blowed it he had. When the King failed to show up and blow his horn at the Zulu Ball that night, his Duke explained: "Man, that old Satchmo done drunk up all the champagne in this town...
Gideon's Knights. When P. (for Plummer) Bernard Young went to work for the Guide in 1907, it was the fraternal organ (circ. 500) of the Knights of Gideon. One day the editor failed to show up and Printing Foreman Young tried his hand at an editorial. He did so well that he was hired as associate editor. In 1910, Young took over the Guide and turned it into a general newspaper for Negroes. Now it has 80 employees, an International News Service wire and good Washington coverage from the National Negro Press Association...
...eight years as Chairman of the Commission on A Just and Durable Peace, has led a devoted band of Christian thinkers in serious efforts to apply Christian principles to the tough and thorny problems of the world as it is. This time he was able to show that Protestant influence had been effective in leading the U.S. away from isolationism toward a sense of realistic responsibility for the peace and liberty of men & women in other countries. Illusion V. Faith. According to Dulles, it is quite wrong to say that a third world war is inevitable. "Today there are assets...
Last week, in the first big retrospective show of Bloom's work ever held, there was plenty to look at besides painted corpses. Visitors at Boris Mirski's Boston gallery could see encrusted oils of blazing chandeliers, Christmas trees ribboned with light, melancholy rabbis and bold abstractions that have contributed to Bostonian Bloom's slowly growing reputation. Nonetheless, the five most discussed paintings in the show seemed to come straight from charnel house and morgue...
...Since then he has kept at his art steadily, selling no paintings at first, indifferent to poverty. In 1942, he was jarred from an oilstove and breadcrumb existence by painting Curator Dorothy Miller of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. She hung 13 of his paintings in a show of American artists, and the museum bought two of them for its permanent collection...