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...also likes animals better than people, rates the race-tracky smell of Absorbine Jr. (used to rub down horses) higher than My Sin. Because well-heeled horse and dog owners like to have portraits of their pets on their mantelpieces, Sculptress Harrah charges much higher prices than the average bookend and paper weight animal sculptor, gets $200 for a bronze dog, $700 up for a bronze horse. For four years June Harrah has supported herself with her sculpture. She was educated at a swank finishing school, never had any systematic training in art, knows nothing about the work of other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Animal Week | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...longer head the stationery of undergraduates, proud of the gleaming red seal which is the symbol proclaiming his superiority to other men. It must be out from banners and doubtless divorced from the deadly bookend, that its presence be a not too obvious prop of learning. As a substitute the Harvard arms is offered--the seal minus the circumferential lettering and the Christo et Ecclesiae, but the very shape itself must be altered from the round. What remains is a castrated version, devoid of all meaning and shorn of he grandeur of tradition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN NOV ANG | 6/5/1935 | See Source »

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