Word: starting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neat as a laboratory. There are no still lifes and no models in sight, because he never paints directly from nature. "I discover my picture on the canvas the way a fortuneteller reads the future in tea leaves," he explains. "I never visualize a picture in my mind before starting to paint. On the contrary I believe that a picture is finished only after one has completely effaced the idea that was there at the start...
...Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh's only morning paper, was scooped on the story by the two afternoon papers, but it really didn't mind; it wanted the publicity. The story: the Post-Gazette was planning to start a Sunday edition next month...
Pittsburgh already has two Sunday papers: Hearst's Sun-Telegraph (circ. 600,000) and the Scripps-Howard Press (circ. 500,000). They politely doubted that there was room for three. Editor E. T. Leech of the Press welcomed the newcomer with a warning: it would start "under a heavy handicap ... in a race in which economic factors make it almost certain that only two can finish...
...cattle in its history-and beef prices tumbled. Choice grades of beef which had brought a top price of $41.60 a hundredweight last summer were offered for as low as $25, only $6.25 above OPA levels. Hogs slumped $1 to $20.50, lowest since October 1946. But at the start of this week, both livestock and grains firmed...
Smith was superb. Still wearing a cast, he finished off George Goldthorpe a minute and a half after the start of the second period...