Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thanksgiving Day, New York University officials had ripped the sketch for a student mural off its La Guardia Hall wall because of "sharp student controversy" (TIME, Dec. 5). The mural, by thrice-wounded Veteran Harold Collins, was intended to represent One World, but some of his fellows thought it looked like nothing more nor less than Communist propaganda. Last week N.Y.U. students forgot to disagree about it long enough to denounce removal of the mural as "a direct attack and violation of student rights and the usurpation of the powers of student government." As a matter of principle they wanted...
...looking Russia. In a stormy student meeting, Collins' work-in-progress was denounced as "vicious Communist propaganda." Said Collins: it was merely "what I believe to be true, based on personal and vicarious experience." On Thanksgiving, N.Y.U. officials settled the matter to their own satisfaction by clearing the sketch off the wall because of "sharp student controversy . . . without passing judgment on either its artistic or philosophical merits...
...brought up questions of artistic freedom, is one of the discussion topics in English A's new reading book. Fogg Museum first decided to supplement the English department's work with an exhibit of Rivera' work. The Museum secured and put on exhibition for the first time the actual sketch of the mural submitted by Diego Rivera to Mrs. Rockefeller. It also includes one of the few photographs in existence of the actual mural before it was destroyed...
Novelist-Playwright Anita Loos was making the most of a good thing. Having cleaned up over $1,500,000 on Gentlemen Prefer Blondes as a magazine sketch (1924), a first novel (1925), a play (1926) and a movie (1928), she had collaborated with Playwright Joseph Fields to turn it into a musicomedy. As rehearsals began in Manhattan, a photographer recorded an unrehearsed resemblance between Author Loos and the 1949 version of her heroine, up & coming Comedienne Carol (Lend an Ear) Channing...
...heroes and villains as Billy the Kid, Geronimo and Archbishop John (Death Comes for the Archbishop) Lamy made posthumous headlines. The New Mexican's tough, fighting Editor Will Harrison suspended his running feud with New Mexico's Governor' Thomas Mabry long enough to print a historical sketch under Mabry's byline...