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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last fortnight Manhattan's American Artists Group, composed of dozens of top-notchers, put its cards on sale. Prices: 5? to 25?. Artists Harry Wickey, Rockwell Kent and Adolf Dehn began the Christmas card project in 1935. None of the artists made pictures expressly for cards; works were chosen for their reproducibility. But three years ago, as a sop to gum-chewers, the Group added a side line: Christmas cards of conventional kind, designed by professional illustrators. There are now 1,500 cards on the Group list, to which 200 a year are added. The 168 participating artists...
Some artists get invaluable publicity from Christmas cards. Dale Nichols hit the jack pot after his The End of the Hunt was put on a card. He got a $4,000-a-year Carnegie Rotating Professorship job at the University of Illinois, and the Metropolitan Museum in Manhattan bought The End of the Hunt-although it denies that the Christmas card had anything to do with it. Some other Group artists who, by accident or design, have done cardworthy snowscapes, religious or convivial scenes: Emil Ganso, Doris Rosenthal, Lauren Ford, Henry Varnum Poor, Jozef Bakos, N. C. Wyeth, Aaron Bohrod...
...choice was easy. Football has been Shaughnessy's lodestar since the day he went out for the Minnesota team in 1911. For 18 years before he succeeded Amos Alonzo Stagg at Chicago, he coached football at Tulane and Loyola of the South, put both colleges on the football map. Last winter, when Stanford asked him to come coach, Clark Shaughnessy said...
...genius at offensive strategies. Coach Shaughnessy promptly put the old fight into last year's wooden Indians. Stanford's marveling alumni wondered if they had hired a magician. But it was not magic but music that turned Stanford into a winning team. An accomplished pianist once headed for the concert stage, Coach Shaughnessy works out his plays to music. Basis for his system is a waltz rhythm: e.g., on an off-tackle play, the back getting the ball counts one-two-three steps, turns on his outside foot for balance, hits the line of scrimmage at the point...
...data were better than he thought. His over-all error was less than 3% on the popular vote. He hit the vote on the head in five States, missed by more than 4% in only three States. Because the election was close, he put eight States in the wrong column...