Word: caledonia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that jammed the St. Louis City Art Museum last week. A "Mississippi Panorama" of 347 paintings, prints and riverboat models and mementos, the exhibition had been put together by bustling 38-year-old Museum Director Perry Rathbone, who first thought of it while he was serving in a New Caledonia naval base during the war. "I was suffering from a strong attack of nostalgia," Rathbone explains. His idea was to "reveal the look and character of the mid-continent's waterways and of the life they created and sustained in the 19th Century...
...eminent Irish artist" John J. Egan. What Egan's effort lacked in accuracy and technique was more than made up for by its scope and unfailing liveliness. It was a rare example of a recent but lost art, as far removed from the modern as New Caledonia is from the Mississippi...
William Addison Dwiggins, free-lance designer and typographical adviser of Hingham, Mass., America's preeminent designer of type faces (Caledonia, Electra, Metro and others), redesigner of periodicals (Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, Century, Scribners, The Yale Review, American Mercury) book designer (A. A. Knopf, Harper Brothers, Yale University Press, Random House. The Limited Editions Club, Riverside Press, William E. Rudge, Harvard University). Master of Arts. Citation: "Typographical designer whose skill and creative imagination have left a lasting impress on the pages of our time...
...sleepily beneath his desk. It pleased the professor to hear students in the corridors outside shouting boisterous greetings as they recognized old friends back for another term. Professor Parenton himself did not recognize a single face-he could not see any. An exploding ammunition dump in far off New Caledonia had left him blind...
...friends on Raiatea-and for nearly 3,800 other TIME readers on the other side of the world. For this week subscribers all over the South Pacific-in Australia, New Zealand and Samoa, the Tonga and the Society and the Friendly Islands, New Guinea, New Hebrides and New Caledonia-will start getting our Pacific Edition by air from Honolulu, instead of our Overseas Edition by ship all the way from San Francisco...