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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offered, it is that the editors would appeal to a larger audience than tthe student Union by going light on controversy, in which little talent has been displayed except by their opponents. The journalistic "sting" is a device that has been worn threadbare by the Progressive's elder brothers...

Author: By David Worcester, | Title: On the Shelf | 3/22/1939 | See Source »

...Testament (Apocrypha) relates that the Angel Raphael led the younger Tobias on a journey to collect a debt owed to blind Tobias the elder. Guided by the Angel, little Tobias returned with, among other things, a fish (see cut) whose gall restored his father's vision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Shoot in Boston | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...Memling's Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, from Brussels; among the 17th-Century paintings, Rubens' Holy Family Beneath the Apple Tree, also from Brussels. Principal weakness of the exhibition in the eyes of modern students was the fact that it included only two pictures by Pieter Breughel the Elder, the dominant Flemish genius of the 16th Century. At time when the guilds were breaking up and Italian Renaissance influence wa; breaking in, Breughel painted mischievous magnificent scenes of everyday Flemish life. The Worcester exhibition left U. S students still obliged to go to Antwerp Brussels and Vienna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Flemish Manufactures | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...number of years a storm has been raging over Stillman Infirmary, during which much justifiable criticism has been levelled at the inadequacy of its facilities, Sheltered from the blast because of the greater importance of its medical elder brother, the Harvard Dental Clinic has escaped much of the criticism; but actually the need for better dental facilities--while on a smaller scale--is even more urgent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DENTAL DILEMMA | 3/11/1939 | See Source »

Married. Claude Stroud, 31, younger (15 min.) half of the radio team of twin comics, Clarence & Claude; and Gloria Brewster, 20, elder (4 min.) half of the team of twin cinemactresses, Barbara & Gloria; in Miami Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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