Word: soci
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henrich Focke, German planemaker (Focke-Wulf)* and helicopter pioneer, carried on as usual, but at a new stand. He was now working for the French, living in a small Paris hotel, pursuing his specialty in suburban Argenteuil for the thoroughly named Société Nationale des Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud-Ouest...
Innovation. In Manhattan, officers of the Société Culinaire Philanthropique,'an association of chefs, announced that, in view of the situation, the exhibits at this year's annual salon of culinary art would not include food...
...sponsor with honorable intentions. Last week, for example, the Blue turned down a bid for it from Sal Hepatica, which wanted it as a summer substitute for Eddie Cantor, which would merely have involved the Blue's giving the show up to NBC. But the Chamber Music Soci ty had a new entertainer, new impetus as radio's most deftly impertinent show...
...ardent suffragist into the most ardent U.S. booster of artistic revolution. A mediocre painter herself, she traipsed massively through the ateliers and studios of Paris encouraging, propagandizing, buying. With famed French Painter Marcel Duchamp (Nude Descending the Stairs} and U.S. Abstract Photographer Man Ray, she formed the Socieété Anonyme, first society for collecting and spreading modern art in the U.S., started her tremendous collection under its name. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, the Société Anonyme's famed rival, is nine years younger...
...treasures Collector Dreier did not give her Société is a painting on glass by Abstractionist Duchamp which she has had built into the wall of her house. Several years ago, on its way to an exhibition in Brooklyn, the glass picture got shattered. To restore it, Artist Duchamp made a special trip to the U.S., pieced it together like a picture puzzle, found that the cracks improved the com position...