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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Peter J. Curtis was sentenced to grey-walled Clinton Prison at Dannemora, N. Y. for robbery, he was a sign-painter. Instead of planning a jailbreak, Convict Curtis found his escape on canvas, painting in the barred funnel of light in his cell. Last year the warden gave him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Escape Artists | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

In the Dannemora art school, no one paints his environment. All go as far away as possible from Dannemora's stone walls. Teacher Curtis paints pictures that look like calendars in village postoffices: an Indian, a landscape, a glossily highlighted Flemish Fisher. His star pupil, Convict R. Rehm, has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Escape Artists | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

Board of Traders asked each other: "Why else did Curtis Bean Dall buy a seat on the Board of Trade a week ago? He must expect it." Mr. Ball's father-in-law in the White House (where Mr. Dall visited over the weekend) took pains to foster the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Great Anticipations | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

The nomination of the five Junior Fellows was made by the Senior Fellows, or governing body, of the new Society. This group includes the President of the University and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, as members ex-officio, and the following: A. N. Whitehead, Professor of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Five Men Chosen To Form Nucleus For Society of Fellows | 4/12/1933 | See Source »

Members of Kirkland House will give a dinner tonight for the Senior Fellows of the newly created Society of Fellows. This group includes President Lowell, A. N. Whitehead, professor of Philosophy, J. L. Lowes, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, L. J. Henderson '98, professor of Biological Chemistry, C...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 3/29/1933 | See Source »

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