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...walking in the bed of a river," put on his hat, strode out of the paint factory, out of the town forever. He got an advertising job in Chicago, met Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Ben Hecht, began writing stories himself. After two poor novels, Anderson brought out a remarkable sketch of small-town life, Winesburg, Ohio...
Could Britain take all that? By 1940 Adolf Hitler may no longer believe what he wrote in 1924. The London Daily Sketch recently attributed the following to Mein Kampf: "The British nation will ... be considered as the most valuable ally in the world as long as it can be counted on to show that brutality and tenacity in its Government, as well as in the spirit of the broad masses, which enables it to carry through to victory any struggle that it once enters on, no matter how long such a struggle may last, or how great the sacrifice that...
...noncriminal matters: juvenile and domestic cases, a probation system, a medical department. To familiarize themselves with its problems, the winning artists attended court sessions, including closed hearings. What leftist Artist Joe Hirsch learned left him stumped. Assigned to decorate the "F. & B." (fornication and bastardy) courtroom, he tore up sketch after sketch, exclaimed: "I can't cover that wall with bastards." Finally he painted panels relating to a child's security: an adopted bootblack; a foster father playing with a child; another helping a child up a ladder; a child trotting to school...
...canvas-shod, stocking-capped era of the '80s, down to the latest award made by the Touchdown Club-with turn-of-the-century photographs, cartoons and illustrations by such artists as the late great Arthur B. Frost and Frederic Remington. Among its outstanding illustrations : Artist Frost's sketch of the Yale-Princeton game (see cut) played in Hoboken on Thanksgiving Day 1879-memorable because 1) it resulted in a scoreless tie; 2) Yale's Captain Walter Camp flabbergasted the referee by asking permission to put in a substitute, though no player had been injured; 3) the cane...
...painting, handle-bar-mustached artist, Fletcher Martin. A husky onetime sailor and boxer, Martin is largely self-taught. His first oils and water colors, shown in San Diego in 1934, were done in his spare time as a printing pressman. The gobs and prize fighters Fletcher Martin used to sketch still flex their heavy muscles in his canvases; his Trouble in Frisco-sailors slugging, seen through a porthole-is owned by Manhattan's Museum of Modern...