Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife, the late Sophie Taeuber, Arp made cut & Daste abstractions for a while, "but the sun faded the colors. The spiders came. People sneezed and daubed at our work with dirty Angers. I was desolate, until I decided to introduce destruction into the work itself tearing it. But I went too far and then it was necessary to leave this period of curiosity and seek beauty, calm, the classic...
This week Albers' emotionless abstractions went on exhibition in two Manhattan galleries at once. They were composed mostly of straight lines and right angles, thinly painted in pure colors. Coming at a time when many abstractionists content themselves with syrup, tar, mustard, muscle and a soup spoon, Albers' reticent craftsmanship was a welcome change of diet-thin, but digestible...
...Candles. Porter's taste for a life of truffled trifles was whetted even before he went to college. As a reward from his grandfather for having been class valedictorian at prep school, he got a tour of France, Switzerland and Germany. He had also developed a talent for enchanting everyone within earshot of his piano (his mother, Kate Porter, now 87, made him practice every day). At Yale he moved about socially and expensively, wrote undergraduate shows, skipped regularly into Manhattan to see the Broadway output, and often got back to the campus on a milk train...
...things in familiar places: cigarettes, cough drops, bric-a-brac, Kleenex, sharpened pencils. When Porter travels, even his own ashtrays go with him, and he likes them kept so neat that at parties a servant cleans them up almost before a guest can crunch a cigarette out. When Porter went to Philadelphia for Kate's 3½-week tryout, he took along five paintings, including a large Grandma Moses snowscape, to make his hotel suite homelike...
Henning joined the Trib in 1899, a cub from Chicago's City News Bureau. After a stint at general assignments and politics, he went to Washington and became bureau chief in 1914. Henning was one of the favored reporters William Howard Taft called in for press conferences around the Cabinet table. There, Taft regaled them with droll stories, "shaking," says Henning, "like a bowl full of jelly." Henning found Woodrow Wilson irascible and short-tempered, and Calvin Coolidge a man who "would talk your arm off if you gave him a chance...