Word: wilmington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This squeeze may be a sign rather that the Japanese are desperate than that they are smart. They might lose their silk market forever. Last week in Wilmington, Del., Du Font's sheeny, much-publicized nylon hosiery went on sale at $1.15, $1.25, $1.35 (for different gauges), sold quickly when salesgirls claimed that one pair of them would outwear four of silk, that they would dry in ten minutes when washed. As material for full-fashioned hose a previous silk substitute, rayon, was a lame competitor to silk but nylon and its brother synthetics now in prospect...
...granddaddies of one contemporary school were the American pre-Raphaelite Edwin Austin Abbey and the Romanticist Howard Pyle, both august figures around Manhattan's mellow Century Club in the 1890s. Pyle, later joined by his star pupil, N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth, founded an informal art school at Wilmington, Del., where young Pyles and young Wyeths still make most of the art news (TIME, Nov. 15; 1937). Abbey's Tennysonian women and Pyle's nut-brown heroes haunted subsequent illustrators in oil. So did their love of historical romance. One of their stylistic descendants is Norman Rockwell...
When Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn drove past him near Wilmington, Del., State Trooper Joseph Shannon stopped her "because she looked too young to drive a car." Later he declared: "I soon found out she was not a kid. She was a regular little wildcat. She shrieked . . . and generally acted like a bunch of wildfire...
...husben George White from Hope Well, Va. got burnt up, fell in lumum pot* at Petersburg, Va., left two children. No. 6 husben, Willie Brown, native of Richmond, Va. he died from launching ships at Carolina Ship yard, wilmington, N. C. No. 7 husben, Charlie Moten from Horrie County, S. C. died from cramp, 1 child left...
Last week in Wilmington. N. C. (pop. 32,270), a downtown building recently occupied by an undertaker's parlor was undergoing a cheerful change. Carpenters and painters were remodeling it into studios, workshops and an art gallery. In Salt Lake City, Utah (pop. 140,267), the old Elks Club building near Brigham Young's Theatre had by last week undergone a similar transformation. In Spokane, Wash. (pop. 115,514), a downtown store building, rebuilt into galleries, studios and work rooms, was preparing for its first art show. For these cities the appearance of Art in the business district...