Word: whistlerisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every Tuesday afternoon this cheery salutation whangs out to some 50,000 American Indians from Station WNAD at the University of Oklahoma. Roughly translated, it means: "Hello, my friends, this is Kesh-ke-kosh, me, myself, I am here, speaking." Kesh-ke-kosh is Don Whistler, a rugged Sac and Fox Indian, who persuaded his alma mater to let him go on the air two years ago. His half-hour program (Indians for Indians) has the only regular Indian language broadcast in the U.S. It is unrehearsed and almost scriptless. Because of the diversity of speech among Indian tribes, much...
Died. Arthur Pryor, 71, veteran bandmaster, once-famed trombonist, composer of some 300 marches, operettas, "novelties" (The Whistler & His Dog, Jingaboo, On Jersey Shore); of a stroke; in West Long Branch, N.J. A boy musician, he played an estimated 10,000 solos with Sousa's Band, took over his late father's band, became Sousa's closest competitor...
...There were more mothers than ever before in U.S. history -and fewer of them looked like Whistler's. For more than a century the U.S. birthrate has been dropping. The draft had much to do with a fact now noted by statisticians: the U.S. birthrate last year was 18.8 per 1,000, highest since the crash of 1929. In 1941 there were 2,500,000 new U.S. babies, and 1,500,000 new brides. Some of the brides are already mothers and lots more U.S. babies are on the way. In February 1941 the U.S. birthrate hit 20.2, passing...
...unlike most of his contemporaries', spoke directly to the man in the street. His meticulous paintings of plain U.S. landscapes and plain U.S. people were hung in the smart art salons of 57th Street; they also appeared in ads and on magazine covers (TIME, Sept. 23, 1940). After Whistler's Portrait of the Artist's Mother, Wood's austere portrait of the typical Iowa farm couple, American Gothic, had become the most popular of all U.S. paintings...
Died. Walter Richard Sickert, Sr, youthful "old master" of British painting; in Bathampton, England. Widely credited with introducing impressionism in England, he was a young disciple of Degas, a student of Whistler. Of himself as a painter he was once quoted: "My pictures are like the clippings of my toenails; they grow out of me and I have cut them off, and that is all I know about...