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Hananiah Harari is a slick, meticulous commercial artist whose sharp-focus Coca-Cola ads, whisky displays (Old Sunny Brook) and magazine covers (FORTUNE) look even more real than the photographs he often paints from. He is also a solemn abstractionist. Last week Harari's "serious" paintings were on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery. They looked like nothing so much as houses built of cards for a game unknown to Hoyle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Double Trouble | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

...that occasion that we paused for a minute somewhere above the town to peer into a little brook. We looked at it in silence, and my thoughts ran to the possibility of fish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Teacher Enjoyed Nature Vacations | 4/27/1950 | See Source »

...Prince of Wales's (later King Edward VII) Ambush II in 1900. At the first barrier, six horses had gone down in a thundering crash, and Monaveen was up with the leaders. One more went down at the second, four more at the dreaded Becher's Brook. Monaveen stayed in the lead. Then his foreleg nicked the 14th fence. On the second time around the grueling 4½-mile course, Monaveen stumbled again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: And Then There Were Seven | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

Other sophomores slated for heavy duty on the spring trip are attackman Pete Brook, defenseman Bill Spence and Jay Byrne, Goalie Bob Thomas is still jockeying with veteran Sid Clark for the starting cage slot...

Author: By Bayley F. Mason, | Title: Lacrosse Team Prepares For Trip | 3/30/1950 | See Source »

Munro is also depending upon his 12 returning lettermen to fill in the cavities left by graduation. On the attack either Rick Hudner or sophomore Brook will have to replace Estin who besides being the high scorer was considered the best feeder and dodger last season. On the starting defense Munro will be counting upon the varsity experience of Fred Coburn, who will be teamed with two sophomores...

Author: By Bayley F. Mason, | Title: Lacrosse Team Prepares For Trip | 3/30/1950 | See Source »

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