Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been public, polemical jobs: his big, lacerating mural, Guernica, for the Spanish government pavilion at the Paris exposition of 193 7, and a series of hairy-nightmare etchings entitled Dreams and Lies of Franco. At the same time, Picasso's previous work has begun to emerge from the smoke of controversy into the lucidity of history. Not a mere canonization but a symptom of universal stock taking was the announcement last week by the Art Institute of Chicago and Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art of a huge, joint retrospective show of Picasso for next autumn. And various...
...traffic. Even in the Graphic days the two-square-mile Basin was beginning to be crowded and Cincinnatians, whose town has more hills and valleys than any other in the Union, were putting their homes back on the hilltops to get above and beyond the city's industrial smoke...
...Newark, N. J., Mr. & Mrs. Gerard Gardiner's two-story frame house caught fire. Awakened by the smoke, Mrs. Gardiner's sister wrapped one-month-old Kevin Gardiner in blankets, called to men in the yard, and dropped the baby from the second-story window. In the smoke and darkness they thought she was tossing a bundle of clothes, let it fall, dragged it 20 feet from the house, left it in the snow. Half an hour later a fireman heard the baby cry, picked it up unharmed...
Last week Wholesaler Judson was summoned to Washington to testify before the Federal Communications Commission ' about the way he ran his business. For five hours, Judson squirmed and squinted through the cigar smoke and a rain of questions. When the air was clear again, spectators had learned that U. S. music was organized and run as unromantically as any chain store, or stockyard...
Manhattan's fusty old First National Bank is long on tradition. No employe or officer may smoke, swear or tell risqué stories within its portals. Most desks are roll-tops and on their upper right-hand corners officers' hats are traditionally poised. Last week it looked as though another tradition were forming. For the retirement of First National's Chairman Jackson Eli Reynolds, a onetime lawyer who had no banking experience when he became First National president 17 years ago, gave complete command of Manhattan's ninth largest bank to President Leon Fraser, who also...