Word: fountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Birds. One such "little thing" in Bishop's new show was a picture of a girl bending to drink from a fountain in Union Square. "I've got pages & pages of sketches of men and girls drinking out of that fountain," she says. "You know, most people lift one leg when they drink. Some put their hands behind them. Others embrace the bowl. But it's so quick and nice - nice-like birds, they drink and fly away - and I have a devil of a time. You could easily pose a person there, of course...
Last week, Tenor Rounseville finally got success, of the kind he wanted. With financial help from his home town of Attleboro, Mass., he had worked hard with a teacher, spent the summer of 1948 at Boris Goldovsky's opera school at Tanglewood. After a student production of the Fountain Scene from Pelléas and Mélisande there, he landed a chance to sing Pélleas in the New York City Opera's closing performance last year. Ace French Repertory Conductor Jean Morel liked Rounseville's big, wide-ranging tenor voice, taught him to sing...
Died. Ezra Winter, 63, mural painter, best known for his The Fountain of Youth, one of the world's largest (60 by 40 ft.) murals, which decorates the grand foyer of Radio City Music Hall; by his own hand (double-barreled shotgun); in South Canaan, Conn...
...Niagara Falls, N.Y., Walter Tucker told police that someone had broken into his garage, left three automobile tires and wheels worth over $50. In Brighton, Iowa, Bank Cashier L. B. Luithly reported that the man who broke into the Rubio Savings Bank took nothing more valuable than two fountain pens...
...Washington desk Hoffman is a shirtsleeves administrator, working early & late, even-tempered, ready with smile and soft humor. At first he took to solitary soda-fountain lunches to save time, now he has small lunches with other officials, often at the Metropolitan Club. When he appears before Congress he turns on some of his old salesman's magic, has earned widespread respect for candor and readiness with information. "You should see him operate with Congress," said a colleague. "Whenever a knotty one comes up, he slaps his knee and says: 'Senator, you're entirely right...