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...Evarts, Marcus Beebe, and Captain Al Reeves played a bang-up game for the Freshmen, while Harmon, Meehan, and Ordway starred for St. Paul...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ST. PAUL'S SEXTET MARS CLEAN RECORD OF YARDLINGS, 3 TO 2 | 12/20/1940 | See Source »

Last week Carnegie passed up what was to have been its 38th International, put on instead a bang-up $3,000,000 survey of U. S. painting-367 pictures, dating from 1680 to 1940. The show opened, according to tradition, with Founder's Day ceremonies at the Institute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Americans Only | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

Fort Worth, Tex. prides itself on being a bang-up Western cow town, likes the virile stench of its stockyards, despises cultured Dallas 33 miles to the east. Biggest man of Fort Worth is rich, blustery, football-mad Publisher Amon Giles Carter of the Star-Telegram, who seldom misses a chance to publicize his city at Dallas' expense. Four years ago he stole the show from Dallas' official Texas Centennial Exposition by hiring Broadway's Billy Rose to put on a red-hot Frontier Centennial at Fort Worth. Since then Dallasans have burned like a slow fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Southwestern Hospitality | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...though an unprecedented quantity of pictures and sculpture from south of the Rio Grande is being exhibited from coast to coast, Latin-American art plays to a poor box office. The biggest Latin-American show, at the San Francisco World's Fair, has failed to draw. Even a bang-up Mexican show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (TIME, May 27) has attracted the lowest attendance recorded so far in the Museum's swanky, streamlined 53rd Street building. Main reason for gallerygoers' apathy: most of the contemporary Latin-American art shown has looked like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Italo-Brazilicm | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

...just inadvertently killed a popular drunken officer by pushing him through a balustrade. She turns nurse to make amends. Pamela does not know that Nurse O'Neil, whom she detests, is her mother. This discovery, the picture's climax, is effected with the help of a bang-up barrage which smashes to smithereens some valuable Republic sets of a French village, showers the cute and cowering nurses with dirt and plaster, but does not faze Elsie Janis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 17, 1940 | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

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