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...recent article by Sgt. George Avagian (obviously a paid agent of the Yale News office) skulking behind the innocent heading of "Specialists' Corner." Is our dirty wash to be smirked at and pointed to by a Yale (or as he calls it, "a four-letter man.) "O Tempera, O mores...Immo vere etiam in senatum venit, fit publici consili particops..."And has he the temerity to beard us in our very den? A Yale...
Steinberg was about to go to war, but he would leave behind him a wickedly funny, highly distinctive body of work that augured well for a great postwar career. At Manhattan's Wakefield Gallery, Steinberg was giving his first U.S. one-man show-water colors, tempera and line drawings like the sidesplitting And How Is Business...
...grippe in Manhattan, his telephone rang. He took a thermometer out of his mouth to answer. "Sidney," said the voice of Franklin D. Roosevelt, "I've got a big job I'd like you to do." It was a job on the Defense Commission. Hillman's tempera ture rose from 101 to 103°. When he recovered he went to work in Washington...
Artist Quintana's community, Cochiti Pueblo on the Rio Grande, still looks much as it did when Coronado explored New Mexico 400 years ago this summer. Pictured in his prize-winning tempera are its crops (corn, wheat, melons, squash), irrigated then as now from the river; its Indians dancing, drumming, hoeing, baking, carrying water; its arid hills beyond. Only post-Coronado additions are a mission and school...
...where engineers have installed an anti-museum-fatigue invention: two pyramid-like seats topped by Beniamino Bufano's sculptured animals, penguin and bear) encloses a large central pit, where, hacking away at a huge granite head of Leonardo, stands Sculptor Fred Olmsted. Helen Forbes works on an egg tempera. Dudley Carter, ex-logger and machinist, hews away mightily on 20-foot redwood sculptures with a double-bitted ax. German-born Herman Volz and 16 assistants work on a huge mosaic. All around the hall, busy as mud-daubers, miscellaneous painters, sculptors, weavers, pottery workers get on with their jobs...