Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stanton Macdonald-Wright, a hale and hearty 65, is not only the dean of California painters, but one of the few U.S. painters likely to get at least footnote mention in the history of modern European painting. He is also a man given to confounding the experts. The art critics pronounced him through at 30; his doctors, unable to diagnose a mysterious illness, gave up his case as hopeless at 47. Both critics and doctors were wrong. A major retrospective show of 83 of his oils, at Los Angeles County Museum last week, clearly showed that Macdonald-Wright is very...
Macdonald-Wright, brother of Mystery Writer S. S. Van Dine (real name: Willard Huntington Wright), grew up in a well-off hotel-managing family. His father treated him to painting lessons at five. At 15 young Stan rebelliously went to sea on a windjammer, got so seasick that he was put off at Hawaii. Private detectives sent by his father brought him back home. His family solved his wanderlust by sending him off at 16 to France to study...
SACLANT's Wright...
...enjoyed your story on NATO, but why is NATO's other Supreme Command (SACLANT) so consistently ignored? I do not doubt the importance of SHAPE, or the great abilities of General Gruenther, but Admiral Jerauld Wright, U.S.N., as Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, is responsible for NATO's defense of the vast 12 million square miles of ocean that separate Europe from America...
...Admiral Wright indeed keeps the sea legs of NATO steady from his SACLANT headquarters at Norfolk-as TIME'S map showed...