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Back in the 19303, Thomas Hart Benton boasted that his pictures-like those of his fellow Midwesterners Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry-were "illustrative, storytelling and popular in content, or so intended." Cocky, hot-tempered and unruly, Tom Benton talked loud and stood proud, and his fame was solid. But as a new generation's vibrant distortions and vivid abstractions transfigured the U.S. art world, museum directors began to shuffle his canvases into cellar crypts, and his name vanished from the critics' scripts. Benton did not help his cause by denning a museum director as "a pretty...
...ADMEN (Simon & Schuster; $4] is a sadly unsatiric novel by Satirist Shepherd Mead, onetime vice president of Benton & Bowles, who was wackily horrifying about the pitchman's trade in The Big Ball of Wax. This time the author does not try for laughs, instead achieves a notable first: a novel whose characters will have to be deepened before they are translated to the screen...
Connecticut. Democrats meeting in Hartford to choose a senatorial candidate bypassed the eager politicking of ex-Governor Chester Bowles and ex-Senator William Benton, onetime Manhattan advertising partners, instead picked former Congressman Thomas J. Dodd, 51, hardworking, seasoned politico, who will run against Republican Incumbent William A. Purtell...
...perimeter of opinion. Cried New York Herald Tribune Art Critic Emily Genauer: "Our exhibits will indeed be a scandal." Her objections centered on the absence of traditional painters, and the emphasis on abstraction. The New York Daily News predicted an "atrocity," called for reinforcements from Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Maxfield Parrish and Norman Rockwell...
...breach with the Times led the Britannica to sponsorship, for a short period, by Cambridge University. Philanthropist Julius Rosenwald took it to Chicago in 1920 when it was purchased by his firm, Sears, Roebuck & Co. In 1943 Sears turned over the Britannica to the University of Chicago, with William Benton, sometime adman (Benton & Bowles) and U.S. Senator, putting up $100,000 as working capital...