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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though the Argentine Government sent only the work of prize winners, the show is no tame academic display, spans schools from staid classicism to surrealism. Argentine artists have absorbed European techniques, put them to lively local use. Best section is the prints. Argentine print-makers are good hewers of woodcuts and drawers of water colors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Good Neighbors on Tour | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...minor letters as recognition of their effort. For under Harvard's unique and cobweb-hung system, not those who compete, but only those who place against Yale earn a full emblem. A man can be one of the two best on his squad in an event, and still not display the big award. It takes at least fifteen men to play a football game, and they all get their letter, win or lose. To swim the nine events in a regular A. A. U. meet, thirteen or fourteen are needed. But they have to defeat the best swimmers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE H WITH YALE | 3/22/1940 | See Source »

...known for his murals in Manhattan, Washington, points west. But like Winslow Homer, John Sloan, many another U. S. artist, he first spent long years illustrating newspapers and magazines. Last week a show of 50 drawings and water colors he has done in the last quarter-century went on display in Manhattan's Walker Galleries. Artist Robinson's first exhibit in a decade, it gave youngsters a chance to see what their elders already knew: that for spirit, satire and sound draftsmanship, none of his murals can touch his early sketches and cartoons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mountain-Chaser | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

This aforementioned idea is practicable and easily possible, and is not in the idealistic category of steam beated sidewalks or overhead piping for artificial snow in the summertime! You are welcome to display the above in your columns because I contended there is more thinking going on in colleges nowadays than is commonly supposed. What we now need is action. Nelson Perkins

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 3/12/1940 | See Source »

...last game for Captain Charley Lutz, and he turned in one of the greatest performances of his three year career. Closely guarded though he was as the greatest Crimson threat, he scored 11 points besides giving a sparkling display of floor play...

Author: By John C. Robbins, | Title: QUINTET OVERSOME BY BULLDOGS, 55-52 | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

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