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...Fran Simpson (Kirkland...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Lowell and Adams Each Place Three Men On All-House Nine | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

...Gordon of Lowell is the cream of a rather skimpy crop of outer gardeners. Gordon starts very quickly and makes fly-shagging look easy. His roamings this spring from his centerfield post carried him over about two-thirds of the Bellboy outfield. He is flanked in right field by Fran Simpson of Kirkland and in left by Bob Ridder of Leverett...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Lowell and Adams Each Place Three Men On All-House Nine | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

...feel the decrees were three frankly Nazi papers in Alsace, which immediately ceased publication. Paris news-organs which have been printing favorable German "news" lately are Le Matin, Le Journal, La Liberte, Le Jour, Gringoire. Principal anti-Semitic newspapers affected are Je Suis Partout and L'Action Fran-faise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Decree | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...know it today is simply a French simplification of hazard, or krabs, and the word craps, originally spelled creps or kreps, is a corruption of the English crabs. It is so defined in every French dictionary to which I have had access, including the Dictionnaire Analogique de la Langue Française, and the Dictionnaire Général de la Langue Française...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...which is rare in art and which sometimes starts more enduring fashions than Treasure Hunts: the intelligent mastery and transforming use of a great past style. In this case it was the so-called "archaic" coolness and clarity of form of 16th-century French painting, after the great portraitist, François Clouet. The line in Artist Guevara's pictures seems almost engraved; her forms are firmly rounded, spick-&-span, in cool, grey-blue space. Most impressive: the Seated Young Woman (see cut), plump and brown in a red skirt and an airy room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Modern Archaist | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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