Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like his friend, Louis Adamic, "Maxo" Vanka has a love of poor people and a tireless zeal in studying them. Among his sepia drawings were two that made many a visitor gulp with humanitarian rage: spots of sunlight on a wall under Brooklyn Bridge with bums standing in each spot for warmth; three old slatterns on an alley bench, one drunk and swollen, clinging to elegance with a shawl, one still sturdy and vicious. But the best things in the show were Artist Vanka's palette knife paintings, smooth, slightly van Goghish, brilliantly composed, of a Bowery poolroom...
...hundred-ton cyclotron, one of the most powerful atom-smashers in the world, will be on view. In addition the visitor may see the new indoor wind-tunnel for testing airplane design; the new electron bombardment furnace, producing temperatures half as hot as the sun; the 100,000 - volt storage battery, most powerful in the world; the high-frequency radio equipment making automatic records of condition in the ionosphere; experiments which have led to a new theory of mountain formation; and many other laboratory features...
...trip to the Fogg Museum where this work, in the raw, is currently being displayed, will well repay the effort. Both from a technical or purely artistic viewpoint the display is extremely interesting. There the visitor may trace the product from its almost comic-strip beginning, through the intricate build-up of background, atmosphere, and action to the final stage when it is ready for photographing. It is in this exhibit that the startling simplicity and clarity of the work is best brought out, the infinite and delicate use of detail, and the extraordinarily expressive quality of the animals...
...Director Mervyn Le Roy showed the team and coach plunging over a precipice by using a long shot of a dummy. The American Humane Association is to be congratulated . . . and TIME'S fair treatment of the matter is what we have come to expect from our invaluable weekly visitor...
Mexico City last week gave Colonel Fulgencio Batista the largest, noisiest and most colorful reception that has been given any foreign visitor since Lindbergh. Cuba's barrel-chested little "strong man" had climbed up to the city's mile-high plateau in a special train provided by the President for a ten day visit during which he will exchange neighborhood gossip with Mexico's President Lazaro Cardenas, talk shop with Mexico's military chiefs. Conscious that the eyes of Washington were upon him to be sure he did not show too much interest in radical Mexico...