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Last week, for perhaps the first time in history, Manhattan gallerygoers saw a private collection of Chinese masters they could be sure of. The paintings dated from the 8th to the 18th Centuries; each of them had been traced all the way back and authenticated by one of the few living connoisseurs who really can: a Shanghai collector named Chang...
...Grounded out for Gannon in 8th. R H E Boston College 1 1 0 0 0 0 9 0--11 8 0 Harvard...
Then, after arranging to continue the supply of copies of TIME for the U.S. Embassy staff in Prague, TLJ waited to see what would happen to the newsstand copies of TIME'S March 1st and 8th issues, carrying accounts of the Communist coup, and the March 15th issue of LIFE International, which had a story on Prague's famed, freedom-loving Charles University. Word came on March 8 that TIME was banned for keeps from Czechoslovakian newsstands and that LIFE would henceforth be censored for "antiCommunist" content...
...this were indeed to be the last Olympics, the world would lose something as old as the 8th Century B.C.* and as ever-new and refreshing as the ambitions of the 19-year-old Canadian girl who was the cynosure of St. Moritz this week...
...editors' aim was to sweep the modern world "with the same searching gaze which the Spectator turned on manners of 1 8th Century England." Pacific Spectator had a lot of territory to cover, and no Addison & Steele to help cover it. Since the days of Bret Harte's Overland Monthly, the Western U.S. has had no highbrow magazine of any weight. To help fill the vacuum, 23 colleges had joined as sponsors - "the largest Western college league ever organized," cracked one reviewer, "to support anything but athletics." Last week Pacific Spectator began its second year...