Word: artists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...front of well-stocked department stores. But many a Japanese mother pulled her child away from the images of Santa "Kurosu" and from the store counters because she could not afford to pay the high prices for the fine new wares. "Receiving gift from complete stranger," muttered a Japanese artist last week, "teaches biggest lesson of unselfishness...
Sound Analysis. In Sausalito, Calif., Justice Walter Derr fined Artist Rodney Roth $50, ruled that the sound Mrs. Valerie Humphries had made at a party when Roth bit her bare midriff was "a yell of pain" rather than, as the painter had testified, "a cry of ecstasy...
...harried lifetime, Vincent Van Gogh painted some 800 pictures. Was one of them the candlelit, unfinished self-portrait in the collection of Cinemagnate William Goetz? The artist's nephew and Amsterdam Museum Director Jonkheer WJ.H.B. Sandberg thought not (TIME, June 6). On the other hand, Van Gogh Experts Jacob Bart de la Faille and Paul Gachet thought it was. To settle the matter, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, which had on display the most comprehensive Van Gogh exhibition ever seen in the U.S., picked a jury of American experts: Museum Men Alfred Barr Jr., James Plaut, George Stout...
Loathe Labels. Like any artist worth the name, Stuempfig loathes labels. He accepts the label "romantic" only because he believes that "all good painters are romantic painters. You have to have a certain romantic approach to life or you wouldn't be a painter in the first place. I can't define the word; to me it applies even to Thomas Eakins and Velasquez...
...tall center, Marty Finnegan, and plays fast-break ball along Shepard's own lines. On the basis of previous work, the teams rate evenly: the Terriers easily beat MIT last Saturday, but Shepard's squad has trimmed the Engineers twice in preseason scrimmages. BU has a set-shot artist in captain Joe Sheehan, and guard Ken Rickson is also accurate from the outside...