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...Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney ('22), Painter George Bellows has caught with bold brush strokes a golden instant of a summer day, quickened for today's viewers by nostalgia for that quieter age. Everett Shinn, one of the original Ash Can Eight, recorded another facet of the feather boa era in Trapeze, owned by Wall Streeter Arthur Goodhart Altschul ('43). A painter who often exclaimed, "Lord, I love the theater," Shinn depicted the flashing figures onstage at Manhattan's Winter Garden Theater. Shinn, with an old vaudeville fan's admiration for the acrobats' split-second...
...Feather Community Fund of Boston presented a statuette to President Pusey in recognition of faculty contributions to its spring drive. The Harvard faculty donated more per member to the fund than any other school or college faculty in this area...
...Community Fund was one of the charities included in the University's combined charities drive this spring. The statuette awarded by the fund is a little boy with a red feather in his cap, and is accompanied by a certificate honoring the faculty...
...University's big field house in Iowa City, Iowa's Hawkeyes matched the University of Illinois Whiz Kids, second-ranking team in the U.S., in the battle for the Big Ten basketball championship. Then Iowa Center Bill Logan (6 ft. 7 in.) hooked in a couple of feather-soft shots that started somewhere around his knees and gave his teammates a lead they never lost. After that the confident Hawkeyes ran away with the game. Final score: Iowa 96, Illinois...
...change as he tells of his new B-52, SAC's "Long Rifle." Says he: "Brother, this is the plane to end them all. It takes four railroad tank cars of fuel, flies at altitudes in excess of nine miles. It's as light as a feather to control, and yet it has a rudder four stories high, and it weighs 390,000 Ibs. at takeoff. I've got the power of 30 diesel locomotives out there on the wings." But had not he once described the old B-29 in similarly glowing terms? "Sure...