Word: rainbow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FRAYSER HINTON Former Capt. 42nd (Rainbow) Division Memphis, Tenn...
...frame, full of vigor at 55, he is much in demand as a speaker at gatherings of such evangelical bodies as Christian Endeavor. He runs a publishing house with offices in Chicago and Philadelphia, keeps his friends in formed of his activities in periodic news letters which he calls "Rainbow-Graphs." A firm believer in music as a religious force, Homer Rodeheaver lined up a number of young people in Korea, Japan and the Philippines in 1929, staked them to musical education in the U. S. One of these, a Korean who fortnight ago received a doctor's degree...
Grand old man of U. S. sculpture, 73-year-old George Grey Barnard, was courageously carrying on with the great Rainbow Arch of Peace which he hopes some day to give the U. S. public. Last month vandals broke into the abandoned trolley powerhouse in upper Manhattan which is Sculptor Barnard's studio, wantonly destroyed $17,000 worth of finished figures, left unharmed the full-scale plaster model of the Arch. Said Sculptor Barnard: "I must smile and learn to do better...
TIME, June 1. . . . Rainbow Room incident. I was seated at dais, talking to lady. Wedemar came to table and saluted me with, "Hello, you yellow ." Familiar with crude Wedemar humor, I attempted to pass off remark with ''Hello, Lou!" He repeated salutation and I stood up, drew him aside and said, "Lou, do you mean that, or are you kidding?" He assured me, with another offensive remark, that he meant it. I led him outside, asked for apology, received none, and struck. There was one blow, no word of either Hauptmann case or next day's election...
...International Building. Arranged according to the artists' home States, some 700 paintings and 60 sculptures from 46 States, the District of Columbia and four territories hung on specially prepared walls of sea grass and plaster. For the preview dinner in Rockefeller Center's 65th story Rainbow Room, New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia rounded up a roomful of bigwigs, including New Jersey's Governor Harold Hoffman. Beefy Governor Hoffman promptly proceeded to put the show on the front pages by flooring with one blow a spindly Hearstling named Lou Wedemar who heckled him about his handling...