Word: sprayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME is neat, compact and well-written. But I think it dishonest of TIME to overplay modern art, and show such senile distortionalists and juvenile paint slingers. I do not question the right of any individual to be an expressionist, distortionalist or eggbeater-ist-to trickle, sling or spray paint. If these people find happiness, well and good. There may be a revolution in the art world, but there are others who rebel against being cultured, and wish to remain uncouth and unartistic...
Died. Sheila Kaye-Smith, 68, British writer of finely tooled novels (Joanna Godden, Susan Spray) set in the Sussex countryside, where she spent most of her life. Sheila Kaye-Smith published her first novel at 20, married onetime Anglican Clergyman Theodore Penrose Fry, was converted to Roman Catholicism with him in 1929, and turned in her writing to religious themes...
...than 20 years befriended all three painters, today owns 500 modern Mexican works worth $2,000,-000. Says Collector Carillo: "In Mexico we seem to have reached our last artistic peak in the late '403." For him both Siqueiros and Rivera in recent years have become "paintbrush and spray-gun pamphleteers." With only Indian-born Rufino Tamayo, 55, whose warm, semi-abstract paintings make him a big prizewinner outside Mexico, now strong enough to challenge the hold of the Big Three, Dr. Carillo still keeps Orozco at the top of his list as "the finest of all Mexican contemporary...
...body of an un identified American soldier who fell in France during World War I. The body was selected from four unknown soldiers in the city hall at Chalons-sur-Marne by Army Sergeant Edward F. Younger, a twice-wounded veteran, who marched past the four caskets, dropped a spray of roses onto the second. "I passed the first one ... the second. Then something made me stop," said Sergeant Younger (who is him self now buried at Arlington). "And a voice seemed to say, 'This is a pal of yours.' I don't know how long...
...knees from the bottom to the top of the Spanish hill called Cerro de Los Angeles. At last the Constellation seemed to hover for a moment over the runway; then it touched and skidded, screaming and careening, while a U.S. Air Force crash truck sped alongside ready to spray it with a flame-extinguishing foam...