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Besides Kleinschmidt's oils, there are on exhibition Dodo Borchardt- Sattler's water colors and drawings. This painter is the wife of the famous geographer and explorer, Paul Borchardt. Close first-hand observation of animals in Africa has enabled her to draw absolutely true-to-life pictures. All here works are brilliantly colored, but she is somewhat under the pessimism and hatred of mankind that affected the German artists of the early part of the century. This does not prevent her, however, from composing often with a lightness of touch and humorous approach which make her drawings very pleasing...
...knowledge of Yale's needs and possibilities which will be immensely valuable to the man who is to shape her policies in the years to come. It has given him close contact with the faculty and the corporation. And from this position he has been able to get a first-hand understanding of Yale, which must always be a part of her President's equipment...
...drink. Union members were victimized no less than proprietors and patrons. Their racketeering officers called strikes solely for shakedown purposes, after which strikers were sent back to work usually with their pockets empty, no benefits won. All these charges, the prosecutor promised, would be detailed and proved by first-hand testimony. Assistant Herlands did not deliver his charge until week's end. Rest of the week had been devoted to picking a jury, a process laboriously protracted by the twelve defense attorneys. This battery, which included such well-known Labor lawyers as John F. Finerty of Washington...
...feel that I should add my tuppence ha' penny worth to the Cause of the koala [TIME, Nov. 16, et seq.] As a resident of Australia for 14 years I have had first-hand experience with the "Joey." The term "Teddy Bear" is an American importation and is not used "down under...
...Manhattan hotspot. Young Mr. Shapiro attended Staunton Military Academy in Virginia for four years with a brilliant record, was graduated from Harvard last June magna cum laude. So Proudly We Hail, Mr. Shapiro's first attempt at professional playwriting, lacks craftsmanship, balance and subtlety. As a propaganda piece, however, it is as brutally effective as a meat-ax, contains enough obviously first-hand documentation, along with its exaggerations, to deter hundreds of parents from sending their sons to schools which they may suspect of resembling Stone Ridge Military Academy ("You Give Us The Boy, We Return...