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...without its drawbacks. All three of the men running for the first time after being shelved with adjusted either had recurrences of their old till or contracted new ones. Dong Panic after taking third in the 100, pulled a muscle on his first broad jump attempt. Similar fates befell Ted Washington in the quarter mile and Cliff Wharton in the low hurdles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trackmen Conquer Yale, 82 to 53, In Dual Meel; Clark, Jackson Star | 5/7/1946 | See Source »

...months ago they decided to do something about this semi-prohibition. Result: a ding-dong wet-dry battle. Headed by Mayor Allan M. Butler, the wets supported a plebiscite calling upon the Nova Scotian Government to permit establishment of taverns which would sell beer and liquor by the glass. Last week Haligonians voted for taverns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NOVA SCOTIA: Hooch for Haligonians | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...interesting pictures (some of them badly reproduced), such as Grant Wood's tufted Fall Plowing, to represent Iowa; John Steuart Curry's praying Negroes in a flood, which Curry called The Mississippi and the book labels Tennessee; John Falter's End of School (Pennsylvania); Dong Kingman's watercolor, Morning in New Orleans; Charles Burchfield's The Great Elm (New York). George Grosz's Tobacco Road looked as if he had seen the stage play, but not Georgia. A boy holding a lemon was labeled Boston; a picked chicken hanging on a door, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Portrait of America? | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

...Dong is, and counts himself, All-American. Since April, as an Army private, he has been doing secret plainclothes work for the cloak-&-dagger Office of Strategic Services. On furloughs he returns to his apartment just off Nob Hill and his pretty Chinese-American wife. He sometimes wears a blue mandarin coat but also likes loud sports jackets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dashing Realist | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

...free way of painting what he sees, Dong has a characteristic western explanation: "Nature is really very messy. It is the artist's job to straighten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dashing Realist | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

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