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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nine hundred thousand people scrambled to see Van Gogh's first full-scale show in the U.S. (in 1935-36). Last week a repeat performance opened in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum...
...their use of color the paintings of the impressionists were like windows looking out onto sun-filled space. Van Gogh's were more like lamps; the powerful contrasts of pure color created an effect of light-vibration which was not confined to the pictures themselves but seemed to radiate from them. And where the impressionists minimized drawing, he applied an oriental concept that he had learned from studying the woodcuts of the 19th Century Japanese artists, Hiroshige and Hokusai. To Van Gogh, as to the Japanese, line was more than a lasso for capturing shapes...
Science Fiction Fan Hoen particularly liked the cover by Artist Hubert Rogers, applauded top Science Fictioneer Robert A. Heinlein for his serial "Gulf" and A. E. van Vogt for his short story "Final Command." As the magazine's readers are used to adventures in time & space, Editor John W. Campbell Jr. did not think Reader Hoen soft-witted. He printed Hoen's letter in the November 1948 issue with the comment: "Hm-m-m-he must be off on another time track." But he also thought Hoen was on the track of a thoughtful, balanced plan...
They were playing only three nights a week; schoolwork kept them from doing more. Since July they had been packing fans into Van Nuys' elaborate, teenagers' Ciro's, the Dri-Nite Club, and making more than pocket money doing it (about $45 a week). By last week, they had spread out to playing one-nighters here & there, for fraternity dances and Hollywood high-lifers such as Columnist Jimmy Fidler. But the surest sign that they were really arriving was the hushed way the fans listened when the boys sat in with jazzbos like Drummer Zutty Singleton...
While the regular coach, Butch Jordan, continues his duties as varsity football line coach, Van Brewer 2GB is directing the practice...