Word: wooding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have never attempted anything serious because I think young writers take themselves too seriously," said Wood, who retired recently after two years as president of the Lampoon. He graduates this June, but has no definite plans for a literary career...
...Dana Reed Prize, given for the best piece of writing appearing in an undergraduate publication during the past year, has been awarded to Clement B. Wood, Jr. '47 of Philadelphia, Lowell House, and the Lampoon. Wood received notification by mail yesterday morning...
Three judges--Frederick Lewis Allen '12, editor of Harper's, Edward Weeks '22, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, and Louis N. Lyons, curator of the University's Nieman Foundation--based the one hundred dollar award on Wood's whimsical short story, "A Very Young Rabbit," in the February 28 Lampoon...
...starter, experts picked 52 of the most perishable pictures (mostly painted on brittle wood panels) to be shipped to Germany at once. The remaining 150 would be exhibited at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, beginning May 18. They would be returned in three installments (the last one on March 31, 1949), and meanwhile exhibited, in diminishing numbers and for a small fee, at scattered U.S. museums. Needy German children would get the profits. Last week museum representatives converged on Washington to get their bids in. Result: from the Metropolitan, the paintings, will go to Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Minneapolis...
...knew, but every carving had to be at least a reminder of the unknown. In reaching for the supernatural, the Negro tribesmen lightened their load by tossing naturalism overboard. Their sculptures were subject to just one academic discipline: What can you do with a knife and a block of wood...