Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt, parked against a fence in Groton, Mass., one warm afternoon last week and brooded. He gazed in distaste at his books, at Groton School. The reflection that his father was adventuring in the South Seas added nothing to his contentment. The bright sunshine increased his gloom. He fished out his wallet, thoughtfully counted $8. He turned to his spectacled, 13-year-old companion, Henry Wyse Distler, son of a Baltimore engineer. "Come on," he said abruptly. Without more ado they set off rapidly down the road, books...
Since 1930 the director of London's illustrious Tate Gallery has been bright-eyed, snowy-haired James Bolivar Manson, a cherubic oldster whose talents as a mimic are highly prized among his friends. As director of the Tate, Mr. Manson built up its modern collection but has shown something less than a devouring interest in the minutiae of modern art. Last year the French painter. Maurice Utrillo, ten years a sober man, brought a libel suit against him and the gallery (TIME, Jan. 18. 1937) and last month won a public apology for having been listed in a Tate...
Upshot was that Mr. Manson reconsidered. Last week Brancusi's egg and Arp's shape rested, duty free, in the bright little gallery of Guggenheim Jeune. Meanwhile, sprightly J. B. Manson had regretfully announced his resignation, at 58, as director of the Tate Gallery. Said he: "My doctor has warned me that my nerves will not stand any further strain. ... I have begun to have blackouts, in which my actions become automatic. Sometimes these periods last several hours. . . . I had one of these blackouts at an official luncheon in Paris recently, and startled guests by suddenly crowing like...
...Orleans press, the Hon. Kaju Nakamura was ready to bow his visitors out. But on the smoke-screen point they pressed him vigorously, recalling that sharp U. S. eyes had brought back reports of Japanese bombers wheeling down out of a clear, bright winter sky. Fenced the Hon. Nakamura, grinning toothily, "This is my story, and I'm sticking...
...Bright spot for the Crimson was Phil Hammond, diminutive attackman, who sank six goals before calling it a day. Van Cleveland, in his first appearance for the Stahleymen this year, started off with a bang scoring one goal and setting up several others...