Word: worke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GREAT part of modern life is lived by artificial light, and yet no major painter has devoted himself to this glittering and multi-hued area until now. This week Manhattan's Babcock Galleries put on show the work of Chicago's Richard Florsheim, the first artist to attempt an all-out embrace of the world of electrical, chemical and neon fires. With painters everywhere attempting to reestablish contact, however ephemeral, with nature, Florsheim points out that man-made lights are also part of nature. The nighttime view from an airplane or a train can take...
...Florsheim discovered in himself an unexpected streak of scientific acumen, developed a radar plane-spotting technique that is still considered basic. But at war's end Florsheim still found himself as far as ever from solving the problems in his art. He buckled down to a back-breaking work schedule in his Chicago studio and exhibited only on occasion...
...Human Nature Is Queer." Another big factor was the attitude of the steelworkers. Though some unions posted signs saying: "We shall return as slaves of Ike," and issued armbands emblazoned: "U.S.W. of A.-Ike's Slaves," the men were ready to work hard. U.S. Steel and others reported the workers' attitude "excellent." Said a foreman at Detroit's Great Lakes Steel: "Human nature is queer. There isn't any love feast between the workers and the company, but the guys in the plant have lots of pride and self-respect; they want to do a good...
Pigtoes & Secrets. With $500,000 capital, Pearls Proprietary Ltd. chose an isolated bay, named in honor of Pearler Kuribayashi, brought in an experienced team of 36 to start work. Into the big shells the pearlers inserted a special bead of shell cut from a big Mississippi River "pigtoe" mussel, then grafted in a piece of oyster flesh that was already exuding pearl-forming nacre. The first crop from the 100,000 oysters was harvested secretly in June 1958, and the results were staggering. Though only 30% of the seeded oysters produced pearls, there were thousands of big, beautiful pearls...
Featherbedding v. an Honest Day's Work...