Word: contests
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...solid year of experience behind him. It began the day he slipped into his artist father's studio, locked out his younger brother, whom he was supposed to be taking care of, and painted a picture which won a prize in a children's art contest...
...modern turn to painting has set some 300,000 U.S. citizens to learning the pure and harmless pleasures of the brush and easel. Last week 228 of them were discovering the prouder joys of exhibition. The winners of a nationwide contest sponsored by Art News magazine, they had had their works hung in Manhattan's Riverside Museum for all the world to gawk and snicker...
Except for Idaho and South Dakota, every state in the Union had been represented in the contest. More than a quarter of the entrants were housewives; the rest ranged from surgeons to engravers and from butlers to prison guards. One of them, an actor, reported that he had taken up painting simply "to see how it's done." That would be a good reason for art critics to paint; unfortunately, no critics had entered the contest...
...Saturday's contest, the freshmen jumped to a 13 to 9 first period lead over Dartmouth, a margin they maintained throughout the contest. Particularly impressive was the play of guard Al (Buddy) Le May and forward Forrest Hansen, whose ball-hawking and backboard play stalled the Green offense. Le May topped Crimson scorers with 16 points...
Bill Mckray, who schedules basketball games for the Boston Garden, has another fine double hesder on top tomorrow night. DePaul faces Boston College at 7:45 p.m., and Harvard and Dartmouth meet at 9:30. It will be the second Ivy League contest for both the Crimson and the Green...