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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next for Aranha? Certainly not rest, or sleep (he thinks more than five hours a night is barbarous). Politics? Probably. From 1930, when he plotted Revolutionist Getulio Vargas into power, until 1944, when he nimbly jumped from the dictatorial train before it crashed, Aranha has turned his brain and famous smile to practically every important task that Brazilian public life offers. Only the presidency escaped him. For that, in 1951, his feverish admirers now thump...
...Evans, the pleasure and the art of photography are in the seeing, not the doing. He has explored the face of the U.S. for Government projects, for FORTUNE, and to illustrate books (Let Us Now Praise Famous Men), photographing its muck and loveliness, miseries and grandeur, all with the same puritanical detachment. His pictures have no tricks in them, only an intensity of understatement which makes him one of the top half-dozen photographers alive. Says he: "After 20-odd years of work I still have great difficulty maintaining enough calm to operate well, at moments when some sort...
Golden Earrings (Paramount) must have been intended as quite a novelty. Audiences were to thrill to the spectacle of a Dietrich Without Glamor: her famous legs lost in gypsy petticoats, her looks in gypsy greasepaint, her trick accent reduced to gypsy gutturals barely distinguishable from stock-company wigwam banter...
...this time with the donation of funds to construct Dane Hall. At this point the Law School entered the first of its many "golden ages," as, under Story's leadership, it grew to 150 students. To teach all these, several new instructors were appointed, including the later-to-be-famous Charles Sumner. Another Story innovation was the division of the School into classes according to proficiency...
...Fancy Free. Disney's famous fauna, plus Edgar Bergen and Dinah Shore (TIME...