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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tightening business conditions forced another concern to shut up shop last Thursday when The Eliot House Grill closed its door for the summer because of the dearth of patrons. Famous as the home of the best hamburger in the University the Grill failed to attract enough lovers of the onion covered delicacy to show a coupon profit...
...Bernard Berenson, the top authority on Italian art, told him to look at the Cézannes at Dealer Ambroise Vollard's in 1904; soon afterward he discovered Matisse and Picasso. He and Gertrude had just settled down at 27 rue de Fleurus, the address Gertrude later made famous. But according to Leo she brought no pictures home until 1911 or 1912; he himself built up the Stein collection. "I was the only person anywhere, so far as I know, who in those early days recognized Picasso and Matisse...
What does it mean when an orator says "in Russia's sphere of influence the civil liberties of non-Communists are suppressed?" Last week TIME Correspondent Robert Low was in Szeged, a south Hungarian town famous for paprika and embroidered slippers, when Communist suppression became a dramatic reality. Low cabled...
...wanted first to recall the struggles of the famous "Three Days of Glory" [when Bourbon Charles X was dethroned] with a march both terrible and despairing, to be played during the procession; then to present a sort of funeral discourse or farewell addressed to the illustrious dead . . . and finally to intone a hymn of glory as an apotheosis, to be played while the eyes of all should be fixed on the tall column [in the Place de la Bastille], crowned by the figure of Liberty...
Fame at 26. Stieglitz himself was just as flamboyant and talkative as his art was quiet. His father, a Manhattan wool merchant, had sent him to study engineering in Berlin, but he liked studying photography better. He came home famous at 26, in a few years had won 150 prizes. Stieglitz was already becoming noted for his "firsts." He was the first to photograph moving objects at night. His imaginative eye made him a pioneer in picturing airplanes, snowstorms, skyscrapers, clouds. Then, flaunting his black cape in the face of the American dollar, the young romantic announced that he disliked...