Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred topflight-U.S. artists were asked to confess privately how much they earned from the sale of their paintings. The answer, as reported in this month's Magazine of Art: an average of $1,154 in a year. Complained one hard-pressed artist, in his answer to the questionnaire: "[We] have no place in American life, as of today...
...Another topflight airman, Arthur William Radford, would also be upped to vice admiral and would relieve Marc Andrew Mitscher as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air. "Pete" Mitscher, who had been squirming at his desk and itching for sea duty, would get his wish-as commander of the Eighth Fleet in the Atlantic probably with four-star rank...
This well-meaning project is part of a larger Sinatra crusade (TIME, Oct. 1). It was staged with free help from topflight Hollywood talent: Producer Frank Ross, Director Mervyn LeRoy, Writer Albert Maltz (Pride of the Marines). They got the idea for the picture when they learned that Sinatra had been making spontaneous visits to high schools where he preached little sermons on tolerance. The short's message should be clear enough to anyone. To keep the bobby-sox trade in their seats, Sinatra tosses in two songs, If You Are But a Dream and a ballad with...
...gave $750 top honors to wiry, bigbeaked oldtimer (69) Kenneth Hayes Miller for a milk-&-honey, saloon-style nude entitled Reverie (see cut). Miller's explanation for his choice of subject: "I have an appetite for form." Miller sates his appetite with a practiced brush, has taught many topflight U.S. artists to do likewise. Three other prizewinners in the show, Edward Hopper, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Edward Laning, once studied under him. So did Juryman Reginald Marsh...
...static power of Winslow Homer's famed Civil War coverage for Harper's Weekly, nor the hell-for-leather zip of Hearst's Frederic Remington, but Glackens' Night after San Juan, which he drew while covering the Spanish-American War for the Press, was a topflight demonstration of vivid, accurate reporting. In the latter-day paintings, especially Shinn's The Hippodrome, Luks's The Spielers and Sloan's Wake of the Ferry, gallery-goers could see how a whiff of spot-news training had led to fine art happily free of the musty...