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...pebbles across the cracked farm lands of the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles, blasting at the withering roots of range lands through central Texas, and blowing on out across the Gulf of Mexico. Across the prairie dust clouds boiled up as high as 20,000 feet in the worst duster since the black days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: The Unhappy Land | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

...positions are also being found within the College. The replacement of maids with student porters has resulted in 85 additional places, with Eliot and Duster Houses still to be converted. This year, student porters will earn a total...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jobs Available Despite Increased Demand | 9/30/1955 | See Source »

Surrounded by the tools of his art: framed square of silk, feather duster, long brushes, inkstones and cakes of Chinese ink, Yokoyama works from memory on paintings that bring from $750 to $3,000 each. When the work goes badly, he jabs at the silk with angry brush strokes, then roars to his silk framer, crouched in the adjoining room, to bring a fresh frame. A perfectionist, Yokoyama says: "Each work I start, I tell myself that this is going to be my masterpiece." Only when he is satisfied does he press his name seal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Great-Outlook Master | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

...then plunged into the evening's entertainment. Doctor Pablin began plucking out a lively flamenco on his guitar. Lolita sat down at the piano. In no time Juanin began a heel-stomping dance; Doctor Jaime handed around glasses of sweet Malaga wine while keeping time with a multicolored duster (a present from Uncle Pablo); Doña Lola swayed happily to the rhythm, urging the dancers on with shouts of "Ole!" To show off the Picasso pictures, the family cheerfully struck matches to give Editor Bernier a first tantalizing peek. Back next day at 6 p.m. for a daylight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Uncle Pablo | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...David Mermin of New Haven, Conn., and Eliot House; Daniel A. Rezneck of Troy, N.Y., and Duster House; E. Leo Slaggie, Jr., of Dayton, Ohio, and Lowell House; Harvey Sobelman of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Eliot House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phi Beta Kappa's College Chapter Elects 8 Juniors | 4/15/1955 | See Source »

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