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Among the modern followers of that tradition, Welsh-born Augustus John gives his portraits of the great a romantic dash and bravura air that raises them far above the cliche level of most Royal Academy official portraits. Dublin-born Francis Bacon with his eerie studies has introduced into portraiture the element of overpowering psychological shock that leaves an echo in the mind like a scream in an empty corridor, and has made Bacon one of the best and most individual artists in Britain today...
...week and probably start. Guard Woody Harris, who suffered a rib injury almost two STARTING LINEUPS BROWN HARVARD Richard Bence le Phil Haughey Gil Robertshaw lt Bob Shaunessy Richard Crews lg Ted Metropoulos Donald Warburton c Marv Lebovitz Lawrence Kalesnik rg Hal Anderson James Cerasoli rt Dave Schein Augustus White re Tom Hooper Frank Finney qb Matt Botsford John McTigue lh Walt Stahura Richard Beland rh Jim Joslin Robert Topping fb Tony Gianelly...
...Augustus Thorndike '17, Chief Surgeon to the University Health Service, has been made chairman of a committee to investigate methods of reducing the mounting incidence of college football injuries...
...only to try to produce the elusive gold, but also to discover what made Chinese porcelain superior to European kinds. In 1709 an alchemist named Boettger found the secret (based on using kaolin, a white clay that he found in his wig powder). He made the secret known to Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. Augustus established a ceramics works at Meissen, destined to dominate European porcelain for the next 41 years...
...roaring '203 Roosevelt Field, only 20 miles from Manhattan's Times Square, was America's "Cradle of Aviation." There one rainy dawn in May, 1927, Charles Augustus Lindbergh took off for Paris; within the next 40 days Clarence Chamberlin set out for Berlin and Richard Evelyn Byrd took off for the Continent, landing in the French surf. Roosevelt saw Wiley Post and Harold Gatty fly off in the Winnie Mae one June day in 1931, return eight days, 15 hours, 51 minutes later, having set a new round-the-world mark; seven years later Douglas Corrigan roared...