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Hyman Bloom paints in the slums of Boston, in a studio heated with a rusty kerosene stove. Morris Graves paints birds in a lonely cabin near Campbell Lake in Western Washington. With 16 other U.S. artists, many practically unknown, Painters Bloom and Graves made their first formal appearance in the art world last week, chaperoned by Manhattan's stylish Museum of Modern...
Painted with broad brushwork reminiscent of Georges Rouault's (TIME, Nov. 25, 1940), the show's 58 pictures depicted shadowy landscapes, sprawling human figures colored with the dull sheen of cast iron and stove polish. Weird, mystical canvases, as big as murals, showed mind-wrecking concepts like birth and death. Many, obscurely symbolic, writhed with brilliantly colored male and female figures, with fish and anthropomorphic bric-a-brac in a Freudian Walpurgisnacht...
...former volumes Sinclair's characters, skipping here & there like grass hoppers on a hot stove, managed to be present at practically every important event of their century up to the Wall Street crash of '29. Now (1930-34), as the world's disease narrows its carbuncular focus in Germany, Sinclair narrows his, too - though never to the exclusion of the view that the responsibility for Naziism is as broad as the surface of the planet. He manages to whip in a good deal of data on the U.S., England, France; on such symptomatic side shows...
...Wonders Harris and Cronin, with eight years of professional baseball behind them, each won a pennant in his first year as manager. Hot-stove habitues have no such hopes for Boudreau, who is practically a papoose. Moreover, the Indians are a group of notoriously temperamental individuals, often referred to as a "good team on paper because it folds so easily...
Individual honors were widely distributed, Probably red-headed "Stove" (his real name is Grover) O'Neill deserves a lion's share. Stove came into the Crimson nets at the beginning of the second period and blanked the visitors in convincing form for the remaining 50 minutes. His Sophomore classmate, Al Everts, broke up the game with a brace of tallies in the overtime, and George Gebelein also had two counters to his credit...