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...time-honored gripe of U. S. artists is that big museums do not buy enough works by living artists. This is true, but it is not true without qualifications which irate artists usually omit. Last year the favorite butt of these attacks, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, bought no less than 28 paintings by contemporary U. S. artists, including Waldo Peirce, William Gropper, George Biddle. In general, museums have not only loosened up in this respect, but have begun to spend less money on the acquisition of sacred masterpieces and more on a job just as essential to the artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Year | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...summary: HARVARD BELMONT HILL Curtis, l.w. l.w., Bacon Noone, c. c., Baldwin Thomas, r.w. r.w., Hosmer Stone, l.d. l.d., Holcombe Butt, r.d. r.d., Pleasants Jeretsky, g. g., Sumner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN PUCKSTERS REPULSE BELMONT 5-1 | 12/16/1937 | See Source »

...butt raps upon the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poets' Account | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

Starting for the Freshmen tonight against Framingham will be: Burton, Cox and Willets in the line, Gray and Butt at defense, and Hanford in the goal

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGINEERS FIRST FOE OF POWERFUL SEXTET AT ARENA | 12/7/1937 | See Source »

...somebody hurt in an automobile accident was calling for the court stenographer. "No gentleman can object to this act of mercy," the judge pontificated. Still more bewildering was Judge Dewell's refusal to admit testimony that one of the defendant cops struck Shoemaker on the head with the butt of his pistol. The indictment, he pointed out, mentioned only injuries to "body and limbs." The defense did not bother to present a case. Granting a motion by the defense, Judge Dewell last week directed the completely bewildered six-man jury to return an acquittal on the ground that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Body & Limbs | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

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