Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Placidly ignoring the storms such paintings raise, Artist Wood lives in Iowa City in an old red-brick house remodeled by himself. He likes jokes with the same dry irony as his pictures. Once he told his fellow-Iowan Henry Wallace that he had just perfected a type of clover seed that would increase the nation's clover crop by one-third. Agog, Wallace pressed Wood for details, found it was "a seed that grows nothing but four-leaf clovers...
...first thought of painting The Triumph of Justice, "couldn't think of 20 instances.") No mellow optimist, Painter Sterne started Justice's trek at Brute Force, then let it struggle slowly forward through Greed, Cruelty, Intolerance, Superstition, False Witness, Scientific Evidence and Environment to an end in Red Tape...
Most of the panels are a strange blend of allegory and realism. Sample melange: Red Tape, in which people are entangled in a clocklike cobweb with a steer's skull at its centre. A squirrel gnaws at the skull, while from the right the late great Justice Holmes, astride a white charger, levels a lance at the cobweb. In other panels: a ticker-tape Pied Piper leading men to a gambling table, a gangster having a manicure, Humanity sitting in the skeleton of the Past. Critics praised what they could, or like the New York Times's Edward...
...mild way among astronomers as to whether the "canals" of Mars are real or optical illusions. The canals are easier for imaginative astronomers to see than to record on unimaginative photographic plates. But last week Astronomer Earl Carl Slipher of Lowell Observatory, armed with good photographs of the red planet taken during its close approach last summer, declared that these pictures and others made during the past 35 years all show the canals clearly defined and in the same place...
...red-haired Catherine McNelis, then an advertising agent in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., persuaded F. W. Woolworth Co. to market a group of 10? magazines specially edited for the dime-store trade. Miss McNelis organized Tower Magazines, Inc., soon had seven magazines with a total circulation of some 900,000 copies...