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...Club can't resume serving its mixture of coffee, jazz, and folk songs, however, until, at the earliest, Friday, Dec. 22, when Middlesex Superior Court hears police charges that the Club operated without entertainment license or a victunler's license...
...Earliest was the 16th century's Hiawatha, who was not a Chippewa (as Longfellow's poem has it) but a member of one of the five Iroquoian tribes (either a Mohawk or an Onondagan). A cannibal like all Iroquois at that time, he became a mystic and prophet who united the five tribes into a single confederation. Then there was the Wampanoags' King Philip, who fought the Puritan colonists in the 1600s while his warriors defected or died around him, and who himself was killed defending his lands. The obscure Pueblo medicine...
...painting in words and inadequate to print it in black and white when its values so often depended on its colors. The result of this longstanding color program has been a week-by-week history of art, past and present, that is unmatched anywhere, in any magazine. The earliest crude beauty of Sumerian sculpture, the high glories of Renaissance painting, the colored infernos of present-day abstractionists have all been seen in TIME. This week, for example, while most U.S. newspapers are content to print the list of the top prizewinners at the Carnegie International of Pittsburgh...
Action on a libel suit brought by the Boston Nutrition Society against a Harvard professor, originally scheduled for the week of Oct. 16, has been postponed until November at the earliest...
...archaeologists also found several little blobs of copper, identical in shape and weight with the earliest know gold and silver coins of Lydia. They may prove to be the earliest units of small currency and thus of importance in finding out how the Lydians happened to invent money...