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...tent. But potential art buyers of his time were bored by landscapes: they liked only two kinds of art: portraits and historical paintings. Guy died several years before the romantic, nature-worshiping era set in. Then, slowly at first and with literary prodding from Thoreau, William Cullen Bryant, Emerson and James Fenimore Cooper, Americans began to look at their own landscape with pride and respect...
...Thomas Cole was romantically inclined toward lofty crags, steaming valleys, hollow trees, architectural ruins, whopping canvases. He was a great friend of Poet William Cullen Bryant ("Go forth and list to Nature's teaching"). Intensely religious, Cole usually prayed before painting...
...BRYANT G. NEWTON Lieutenant, U.S.A.A.F...
...Philadelphia last week. The prophecy's source: Education for All American Youth, recently released by the National Education Association's potent Educational Policies Commission, of which Dr. Stoddard is chairman. Product of two years' study, steered by such educators as Harvard's President James Bryant Conant and U.S. Education Commissioner John W. Studebaker, the report persuasively argues that: 1) local control of schools should be retained; 2) educational opportunity can be equalized only by means of Federal subsidies...
...Charles F. Kettering reported that his laboratories had developed a method for commercial production of a new gasoline, triptane, potentially four times as powerful as 100-octane. Estimated cost: $.50-$1 a gallon. The Society presented its highest award, the Priestley Medal, to Harvard's President James Bryant Conant for his work on synthetic rubber and as chairman of OSRD's National Defense Research Committee. Bernard Baruch declared that President Conant was chiefly responsible for breaking the technological deadlock in synthetic-rubber production. Other highlights...