Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ladies & Animals. The 20 paintings in Foujita's new show had all been done in the past eight months. The most memorable of them were snowy idealizations of naked ladies lying down and animal pictures that brought Arthur Rackham and the fables of La Fontaine to mind. He had been inspired to start both series, said Foujita, by a dream in which animals in human dress had mingled with humans in nothing...
...Arthur Godfrey has confessed to a growing interest in "atomic energy and fission, nuclear fission, and all those things." Fortnight ago he invited Physicist Dr. Wendell C. Peacock to give a brief atomic run-through on Arthur Godfrey and His Friends (Wed. 8 p.m., CBS-TV). The interview stalled when jittery bobby-soxers in the studio audience began to rustle impatiently for the program's handsome, 21-year-old Crooner Bill Lawrence. Scolded Godfrey: "I'm not very happy about the reception you folks give to a serious discussion when you come in here ... I'd like...
...Arthur Daley, New York Times: "With bared heads and cathedral-like reverence we stand before the holy of holies, the Yale-Harvard game. But that unreconstructed rebel from Tennessee, Herman Hickman, he jes' don't know no better...
...father, Arthur Twining Hadley, was Yale's 13th president, between 1899 and 1920, and the first non-clerical president of the university. He is known as the "father of modern Yale...
...musical career was well started, so Anderson decided that he would not have to teach after all, and quit Harvard. Before he could leave for New York, however, Arthur Fiedler, director of the Boston Pops, asked him to start writing for the orchestra. Beginning with "Harvard Fantasy" in 1937, and continuing with "Jazz Pizzicato" and "Jazz Legato," Anderson's compositions have become perennial favorites of Pops audiences...