Word: displays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with looping lines and high-keyed colors, that were all his own. In Lee Catch's dark little Fruit Boat, with its cold blaze of lights seen across the water, abstraction and representation were happily merged. Catch's painting was one of the simplest and smallest on display, but it had size...
...leader, French art, is now meeting face to face with its postwar challenger, the art of America." So said the catalogue foreword to an exhibition of 50 French and 50 American paintings that opened in a Manhattan gallery last week. Culled from some 10,000 entries, the pictures on display were all related in one way or another to Christmas; they had been painted for a $28,000 contest sponsored by the U.S. manufacturer of "Hallmark" cards (TIME, July 4), and many of them would show up on Christmas-card counters eventually...
...Victor last week made a low bow to a competitor whose existence it had pointedly ignored. On display for RCA distributors last week went new radio-phonograph combinations which will play not only RCA's 45 and the standard (78 r.p.m.) record, but Columbia's 33⅓ r.p.m. long-playing record as well. The phonographs will be on sale early next year...
...board of directors what he had learned. As a starter, Cummings would redesign most of the stores in the country by throwing out the counter. Says he: "It just keeps customers away from what they want to buy." Goods should be placed on easy-to-reach shelves. Complicated displays should be abandoned: "Too many tricky piles of cans say 'Don't touch me' when they should be saying 'Take me home.' " Stores should be painted up and lit up. A dingy little store, slipping into bankruptcy in a Chicago suburb, quadrupled its gross...
...Crimson will display a more balgneed team this year than last year when the core of the strength lay in the weight events. While the team has lost some power in this department due to graduation that loss is more than made up by the addition of a good group of sophomores to the running squad. This department will be strengthened immeasurably over last year...