Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...first, big Willis Smith, a corporation lawyer who stood for the South-as-is, couldn't decide whether to make another try for the U.S. Senate. In last month's North Carolina Democratic primary bantam Fair Dealer Frank Graham had led him by 53,383 votes. But since Graham did not get a clear majority in a four-way race, Willis Smith was entitled to a runoff. Smith didn't know whether he could muster enough money and votes. At the last minute, he decided...
...paintings in two years to fill some of the remaining gaps. Among its selections were a soapy surfscape by Frederick Waugh, a dusty studio composition by Robert Brackman, and a foggy abstraction by Theodores Stamos. The conservative Met had clearly done its backbending best to give contemporary art a fair, inclusive showing...
Like so many monks, the boys of Eton and Harrow had practiced for weeks, preparing fair copies of Wordsworth's sonnet, Upon Westminster Bridge. The Etonians leaned heavily to 16th Century chancery-a tight, slanting, angular style brought by Vatican scribes to Elizabethan England, which avoids loops, keeps "t's" and "p's" short, uses a broad pen for contrasting thick and thin strokes...
...Doldrums. The Civil War in Spain settled Picasso's doldrums. Passionately Loyalist, he painted Guernica for the Spanish government building at the Paris World's Fair. The mural, done entirely in black, white and grey, symbolized the bombing of a Spanish town by German planes. Brutally ugly, it mixed classical analogies with a suggestion of crumpled newspapers and memories of the bull ring. Goya himself never painted a darker evocation of war's horror...
...three months, the Federal Trade Commission had been holding hearings to find out whether the federal fair trade laws had been violated by five big manufacturers of anti-cold drugs.-Last week in Washington, FTC abruptly announced that the hearings had been called off. Reason: the companies, which had ballyhooed across-the-drug-counter sales of anti-his-taminics into a potential $100-million-a-year business, had signed agreements to mend their advertising ways...