Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perennial race for the presidency of the Harvard Young Republican Club has broken into the open again. Harold Hestnes '58, and David F. Peterson '59, have announced their candidacies for the office presently held by Norman William Smith...
Hestnes is the candidates of the Smith faction of the HYRC. Although a senior, he plans, if elected, to direct the club as a first year student at the Law School...
Buying together and separately, Patron Knox and Director Smith have preferred the-quick to the dead, have made some startling acquisitions. Examples: ¶ Composition in White (opposite), by Jean-Paul Riopelle, 34, one of Canada's two leading abstract painters. In Paris, where Riopelle now works, his larger canvases bring as high as $6,000. Working in intense bursts of creative activity (22 paintings last month) and laying on paint with meticulous palette-knife strokes, Riopelle is a moody painter. His Composition in White grew out of a trip to Austria. "The snowcapped Austrian mountains reminded me of Canada...
...Still's works, Albright Director Smith made a direct approach, found Still in his third-floor walk-up Manhattan studio. With 40 canvases on hand, Still placed only four against the wall. Topmost was the 9-ft.-5½-in. by 13-ft. Red and Black, in Still-like hot red. velvety black and stalactites of white. Director Smith bought it on the spot (estimated price: $5,000 to $7,000). Still says he picked it for the Albright because "it speaks with vigor." As to what it speaks, whether of the West's towering spaces and lost...
Revival. In Rutherfordton, N.C., Eugene W. Smith, 28, was charged with three counts of assault and one for disturbing worship after he stormed into the Second Baptist Church on a Sunday morning, smacked the bell ringer for waking...