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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Placid. Born in Russia, Blume was brought to the U.S. at five, grew up in Brooklyn. He went to work at 13 as a lithographer's apprentice, studied art on the side. At 18 he got an advance from a Manhattan gallery so he could paint fulltime. ("I've been able to get along by just painting ever since, though things haven't always been rosy.") Now 42, he lives with his wife in a small house in Sherman, Conn. His daily schedule is "just getting up and going to work. Nothing ever interferes with that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Putting Ideas Together | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...post of Second Marshal went to Daniel Burrill Ray of Winthrop House and Brooklyn, while Dwight Ken Nishimura of Kirkland House and Berkeley, California became the Third Marshal of the Class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '49 Names Richard as First Marshal; Ray, Nishimura Follow in Balloting | 1/14/1949 | See Source »

Lawrence R. Klepper of Kirkland House and Brooklyn, N.Y.: CRIMSON; PBH; Student Welfare Committee (Student Council); Kirkland House Committee; Freshman General Affairs Committee; House Football; Track; Chairman, Harvard Ticket Agency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '49 Class Committee Candidates | 1/12/1949 | See Source »

Daniel B. Ray of Winthrop House and Brooklyn, N.Y.: Phi Beta Kappa (Junior Year); Harvard Band; Glee Club; Captain Wrestling Team; Undergraduate Athletic Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '49 Class Committee Candidates | 1/12/1949 | See Source »

Albert Einstein, 69, checked into a Brooklyn hospital for an operation to fix up a "longstanding abdominal condition." After an hour on the table, he came out in "satisfactory" condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 10, 1949 | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

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