Word: helms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revealing foreword to the show's catalogue, Critic MacKinley Helm described how he had watched Marin turn a sunset into a painting. Wrote Helm: "With his right hand [Marin] roughed in with black crayon the three elements of the picture-sky, headland and bay; and laid on the color with furious strokes of a half-inch brush in his left hand. His hands fought each other over the paper. . . . 'See that blue spot out there?' Marin said, dabbing impatiently. . . . 'You can't put it on paper-so you just put down a color that...
...Marin, one of the few problems in painting is balance. "Think of the wonderful balance of squirrels," he told Helm. "They scratch themselves equally well with hind paws or fore paws without losing their balance. I like my pictures to have that kind of balance. ... I stand them up on their end, turn them upside down, until I see that, like the squirrels, they have got balance in every direction...
Last week she sang song cycles by two great French song writers, Francis Poulenc and Olivier Messiaen, and two songs by a 28-year-old Austrian, Gottfried von Einem, five by Paul Bowles and several by such unknown Americans as Everett B. Helm, Bela Wilda and Ned Rorem. Her voice was limited in range and occasionally harsh in the high notes, but as always, her interpretations were intelligent and distinguished by restraint...
...half years ago, on Crozier's death, a firmer hand took the helm. Short, bristle-haired Alfred P. Wadsworth, 55, had joined the staff in 1917, covered the Irish "trouble" when Scott was exposing and flaying the misdeeds of the British...
...photographed at baseball games and heavyweight prize fights. Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov unpacked his broadest, heart-warming smile for the trip to New York aboard the Queen Elizabeth and accepted an opportunity to garner favorable publicity in the best American campaign tradition by taking a brief turn at the helm of the giant liner. At the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly, Molotov was friendly and quite optimistic about its chances for solid accomplishments...