Word: three
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three minutes ($29.75) Russian born Cleveland Oilman Abraham ("Abe") Pickus, self-appointed telephone diplomat who thinks he helps world peace by overseas calls to heads of European and Asiatic governments,* talked with Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko, warning him that Finland must cooperate with Russia or "she will have the same experience as Poland...
...three years (1935-38) Clarinetist Goodman retained his crown. But by last spring a lusty group of pretenders was after it. Chief among them - was a youngster named Artie Shaw. Last March, while King Goodman and Pretender Shaw fought a battle of music in Newark, N. J. (TIME, March 6), a brand-new band was drawing some discriminating New Jersey jitterbugs to the Meadowbrook Club in neighboring Cedar Grove. Leading it was Ben Pollack's old trombonist, Glenn Miller...
...swift succession followed the "Harlequin," "Rose" and "Negro" periods. By 1908 he was pioneering in cubism, with a side foray into pasted paper compositions. Picasso's seven years' designing for the Russian Ballet, beginning in 1917, led him into a neo-classical realism, culminating in the sculptural Three Graces (see cut) of 1924. Year later his classicism came to a violent end with his painting, The Three Dancers (see cut), which left not one line of The Three Graces on another. Picasso's subsequent work has been a jumble of abstractionist, dadaist, expressionist and surrealist elements...
Readers of FORTUNE have long admired its lively, accurate maps, which by skillful use of color and three-dimensional perspective make a country jut up from the printed page as though it were in relief. Wiry, kinetic Richard Edes Harrison, their maker, drifted into cartography via scientific and architectural training and seven years of industrial design. Last week an exhibition of his maps went on display at Yale University...
...Southern California last week, the major issue was whether undefeated U. C. L. A. (University of California at Los Angeles), with its three Negro headliners, could beat Santa Clara (beaten only by the powerful Texas Aggies). In Los Angeles' Coliseum, 50,000 fans watched a bruising game that ended in a scoreless tie and increased the humble Uclans' prestige as a formidable West Coast team-a threat to the University of Southern California's Rose Bowl aspirations...