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Last summer two dozen U.S. evangelists descended on the country in an invasion planned to the last poster by ex-Propagandist Muto. Teaming up with Japanese pastors and three marimbas, an organ, harp, chorus, a public-address system and a portable stage, they had encouraging results for such a stubbornly non-Christian country: an estimated 88,520 people reached in 140 public services, and 45 baptized, with another 89 being prepared for baptism...
Four times a week she puts her hair up into a pony tail, dons a leotard, and goes off to classes in modern dancing and ballet. Wandering near Broadway, she avoided the Broadway theater where M-G-M publicized Green Fire with a huge poster of a bosomy girl in sexy green drapery with Grace's head but another girl's body. "It makes me so mad," says Grace. "And the dress isn't even in the picture." Last week MGM's Production Boss Dore Schary summoned Grace to Hollywood to propose a new picture...
...wrinkles." He used a camera to record hundreds of such differences, then translated them into the sparse, nervous lines that are his trademark. But for years his main business was simply to protest evils and inequities. Shahn made his messages so plain that many of them were converted into posters by the addition of a slogan. During World War II Shahn became a poster artist for the Government, later put the horror and ruin of war into some of the most powerful pictures of his career. The changes of history were clearly not stranding Shahn; he still held a wickedly...
...reason for this public ignorance. Dodge admits "a congenital dislike to talk about myself. I have a horror of people who make a long putt on Sunday and talk about it for the next two weeks." Mom Knew Best. The first-born of Joseph Cheesman Dodge, a poster artist, and his piano-playing wife Gertrude was brought up in an eight-room house on Detroit's middle-class Kirby Street. Life was pleasant and easygoing. In the evenings Joe and his brother and sister liked to gather around their mother's piano for a family sing, with father...
...mind fracturing freely within their traditional parties, and 277 splinter factions were competing for office. Out of deference to the sanity of the Uruguayan voters, they all used numbers instead of names, and politicking became largely a matter of fixing the numbers in voters' minds by poster and paintpot. Of all the 277, no figure was more conspicuous, from the River Plate's beaches to the remotest pampas, than 15, the Colorado faction of jaunty ex-President (1947-50) Luis Batlle (pronounced Bat-zhay) Berres...