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Last fortnight Manhattan's American Artists Group, composed of dozens of top-notchers, put its cards on sale. Prices: 5? to 25?. Artists Harry Wickey, Rockwell Kent and Adolf Dehn began the Christmas card project in 1935. None of the artists made pictures expressly for cards; works were chosen for their reproducibility. But three years ago, as a sop to gum-chewers, the Group added a side line: Christmas cards of conventional kind, designed by professional illustrators. There are now 1,500 cards on the Group list, to which 200 a year are added. The 168 participating artists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Christmas Cards | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...women-sometimes as many as a dozen would be laid out on the truck, prostrated by the crush of O'Daniel handshakers. On Saturday night, after the polls closed, he threw a mammoth party in the Governor's Mansion to celebrate his impending victory. Son "Nickey Wickey" O'Daniel sang Old-Fashioned Love in My Heart; Texas Rose sang I Want to Be a Cowboy. On the Governor's lawn 2,500 citizens, including nursing mothers, children and adolescents trampled on flower beds and littered the grass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Pappy Over Cyclone | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

...seek aid from President Herbert Hoover last week went a committee which included President Rees Edgar Tulloss of Wittenberg College (Springfield. Ohio), President George Leslie Omwake of Ursinus College (Collegeville, Pa.), Dr. Norman Jay Gould Wickey, executive secretary of the Board of Education of the United Lutheran Church, and Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, onetime (1907-17) president of Antioch College (Yellow Springs, Ohio). President Hoover agreed to serve as a member of the national sponsoring committee of the Movement, to make a speech for it over the radio in November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Late School | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

Norman Jay Gould Wickey A.M. '16, of Littletown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY BOARDS AWARD 151 DEGREES | 3/1/1923 | See Source »

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