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Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow interviews Presidential Aide Sherman Adams and Designer Ceil Chapman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Apr. 2, 1956 | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

Just before the intermission, to break the pace, the band selected three young ladies from the audience for a band conducting contest. A Miss Ceil Saperstein, from N.Y.U., led the group at a mad pace to win the contest. She was awarded a Band album despite ugly rumblings from the glockenspiel section, one of whose members wanted to be the prize...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Dartmouth Concert | 10/23/1954 | See Source »

...Bitter? Perhaps I am, but Ceil, think how wonderful everything could be if only we would try to aim in the right direction. If only the rotten branches were cut off and cast away-the 'true vine' would then have a chance to thrive. Gosh I have my dreams, I can tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

After being beaten black & white by straight photography, realistic painting has come back in exquisite disarray in the works of Surrealists Salvador Dali, René Magritte, et al. The vogue for their delicately painted dream pictures has caused a slighter vogue for "trompe l'ceil" (fool the eye) paintings, a form of virtuosity in every age since the birds came to peck at Apelles' painted grapes. Eyefoolers were, in fact, a popular specialty in the U. S. 60 years ago. Last week in Detroit an interesting U. S. Eyefooler of that period made news when it was snapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Eyefooler | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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